Perachora: (a) Bronze Sphinx and (b) bronze bull with inscription

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 02/1/5140.C6815
Level Item
Description Small print photograph pasted onto an index card, originally part of the SPHS image library catalogue.
Dimensions 16.5 x 11 cm (index card)
Place Heraeum of Perachora
Dates 1936
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Perachora Excavation 1930-1939
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images from the 1936 Exhibition of Minoan Civilization and the first 50 years work of the BSA at Burlington House, London. The object is from the 1930-39 excavations of the British School at Athens at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "(a) bronze Sphinx, (b) bronze bull with inscription from Perachora".
Notes The date 1936 is listed in the description of the image. Typewritten caption on the index card reads: "249. Sphinx. One of the most exquisite of the small bronzes fro Perachora. 246. Bull, with inscription recording that Naumachos dedicated it to Hera Limenia (550-500 B.C.)". This object has been reproduced for the exhibition with the addition of a caption from C 6318 (see related records).
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/6806.C6815], Perachora: (a) Bronze Sphinx and (b) bronze bull with inscription, 1936
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5105.C6318], Perachora: Bronze sphinx and bull inscribed by Naumachos to Hera Limenia, 1931
Reference 1936 Exhibition Catalogue. 64.No. 246.
1936 Exhibition Catalogue. 64.No. 249.
Payne, H.G. 1940. Perachora vol. I. 1: pl. 43.1.
Payne, H.G. 1940. Perachora vol. I. 1: pl. 43.5.