Sparta: Moulded pithos from the Heroon

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/3007.8007
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 24 x 17.5 cm
Place Sparta Heroon
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1906
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Sparta Excavation 1906-1910
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: Heroon moulded pithos BSA".
Notes Date is based on related record. Drawing of this object is seen in BSA SPHS 01/2521.6803 (see related record).
Related records [BSA SPHS 02/2/8282.8007], Sparta: Moulded pithos from the Heroon, 1906
[BSA SPHS 01/2521.6803], Sparta: Drawing of moulded pithos from the Heroon, 1906
Reference 1908. Burlington Magazine. 14 (68): pl. III.
Dawkins, R.M. 1929. The sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. pl. XV.