Distant view of Menelaion near Sparta

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/2429.6712.1
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 24 x 17.5 cm
Place Sparta Menelaion
Dates 1909
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: the Menelaeum distant view".
Notes Date is based on the publication of the image in BSA for 1909. The image appears in SPHS Slide Sets no author, ca. 1932. Greek Scenery. Slide number 6 and A.J. Toynbee, ca. 1924. Greek Life and the Greek Environment [later changed to The Geography of Greece]. Slide number 14. The image is duplicated in slide format in the Ashmolean Lantern Slide Teaching Collection, Oxford University, catalogue number XB342 as "Eurotas: plain, the Menelaum".
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/3803.6712.2], Distant view of Menelaion near Sparta, 1909
[BSA SPHS 03/2430.6712], Distant view of Menelaion near Sparta, 1909
Reference 1909. BSA 15: frontispiece. Link to article
1909 JHS 29: 5th accession to 1904 slide catalogue. lxxxi.SPHS 6712. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 44.SPHS 6712. Link to article