Mycenae: Tomb of Clytemnestra

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 02/1/3715.C1723
Level Item
Description Small print photograph pasted onto an index card, originally part of the SPHS image library catalogue. On the reverse of the card, handwritten caption: "Arg.: Mycenae. Clytemnestra"
Dimensions 16.5 x 11 cm (index card)
Place Mycenae: Tomb of Clytemnestra
Ancient Mycenae
Dates Latest 1921
Donor/Creator Atchley, Shirley Clifford
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 91. Argolis, Mycenae 'Clytemestras' tomb".
Notes Part of a group of over 1,000 photographs donated by Mr. Shirley C. Atchley in 1921 (JHS 1922).Therefore, if the specific date is not listed in the register, the images cannot have been produced later than 1921. The wall across the dromos is mentioned by Wace in the publication of the excavations at Mycenae (BSA 25: 358)