Sparta: Lion sculpture from the Nymphaeum, side view

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/7640.C2812
Level Item
Description Glass slide, half plate size, presumably a copy negative.
Dimensions 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Place Sparta Theatre
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1927
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
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, Theatre. Sculpture from Nymphaeum, marble lion (side view)".
Notes Date is the year listed in the description of the image in the SPHS register. For a front view of the same lion, see related record.
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/7639.C2811], Sparta: Lion sculpture from the Nuymphaeum, front view, 1927
[BSA SPHS 02/1/5172.C2811], Sparta: Lion sculpture from the Nuymphaeum, front view, 1927
Reference 1926. BSA 28: 32-33, fig. 12.No. 7 (M 5168). Link to article
1928 JHS 48: 14th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. lvii.SPHS C.2812. Link to article