Sparta: pottery and lamps from the Hellenistic tombs

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/2677.6960
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 16 x 12 cm
Place Sparta Hellenistic Tombs
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1907
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: Hellenistic vases and lamps".
Notes The number 178 is written on the border of the negative, then struck out. Date is based on data in the BSA Corporate Records - Excavation Reports for Sparta 1906, 1924-27, 1950, 1954 - Sparta Negatives for 1906 (1-18; 199-207) Negatives for 1907 (101-198). The caption in the Excavation Reports for this number reads: "Hellenistic Tombs. Vases from Hellenistic tombs"
Reference 1907. BSA 13: 162, fig. 7. Link to article