Mycenae: Fragment of a bull head rhyton with a diagram from the Rhyton Well

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1703.4233
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from two drawings.
Condition Black paint used to cover parts of the image.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Mycenae: Rhyton Well
Ancient Mycenae
Dates 1920
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Mycenae Excavation 1920-1923
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images of the BSA's 1920s excavations at Mycenae. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mycenae: Rhyton Well. Fragment of Bull Head rhyton with diagram".
Notes Date is listed in the caption for the 1920 SPHS accessions to the slide list. Related record MYC 3/4/02 shows the reconstructed bull's head (on right) MYC 3/4/03 shows the image of the eye construction (left).
Related records [MYC 3/4/02], Steatite Bull’s Head Rhyton No. 1D, 1920-1922
[MYC 3/4/03], Construction Details of Bull’s Head Rhyton, 1920-1922
Reference 1920 JHS 40: 6th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. lxxviii.SPHS 4233. Link to article
1919. BSA 24: pl. XIII.1 and 2. Link to article