Sparta: Terracotta female heads from the Acropolis

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 02/1/5225.C2877
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 Sparta Acropolis
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1927
Donor/Creator Droop, Professor John Percival
Project Sparta Excavation 1924-1927
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images, 1924-1927, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta 1927, Acropolis. terracotta. six female heads".
Notes Date is the year listed in the description of the image in the SPHS register. Four individual prints of other catalogue numbers listed in a note in the register which reads: "Composed of C 2866, 2867, 2864, 2865" (see related records).
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/7705.C2877], Sparta: Terracotta female heads from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 01/7692.C2864], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female head with ribbed hair and white slip from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5212.C2864], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female head with ribbed hair and white slip from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 01/7693.C2865], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female heads, one with palm leaf crown from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5213.C2865], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female heads, one with palm leaf crown from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 01/7694.C2866], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female head with short curls and head-band from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5214.C2866], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female head with short curls and head-band from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 01/7695.C2867], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female heads, one with palm leaf crown from the Acropolis, 1927
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5215.C2867], Sparta: Archaic terracotta female heads in profile, one with palm leaf crown from the Acropolis, 1927