Perachora: Protocorinthian bronze dove, ca. 650 B.C., once attached to a bronze tripod.

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/6807.C6816
Level Item
Description Glass negative, half plate size, a copy negative taken from another negative.
Condition The negative is framed with red tape.
Dimensions 16x12 cm
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 British School at Athens excavations at Perachora, Corinthia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Proto-Corinthian bronze dove from Perachora, ca. 650 BC".
Notes The date 1936 is listed in the description of the image. Typewritten caption on the image reads: "248. Proto-Corinthian dove (ca 650 BC), once attached to a bronze tripod; like the lion. Perachora" is printed on the negative. This object has been reproduced for the exhibition with the addition of a caption from C 5693 or C 6307 (see related records).
Related records [BSA SPHS 02/1/5141.C6816], Perachora: Protocorinthian bronze dove, ca. 650 B.C., once attached to a bronze tripod., 1936
[BSA SPHS 01/6438.C5693], Perachora: Bronze dove, 7th century [B.C.], 1930-1934
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5097.C6307], Perachora: Bronze dove, 7th century [B.C.], 1930-1934
Reference 1936 Exhibition Catalogue. 64.No 248.
Payne, H.G. 1940. Perachora vol. I. 1: pl. 41.2.