Chaironeia: The lion

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/5588.C1380
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Chaironeia
Voiotia District
Dates 1902-1921
Donor/Creator Atchley, Shirley Clifford
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Mr. Atchley's numbering: 15. Boeotia, Chaeroneia [the] lion".
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 Lion was reconstructed around 1902 or shortly thereafter by the Archaeological Society - JHS 22 (1902) 380. The image appears to show the lion soon after restoration, so the date is probably closer to 1902 than 1921.
Reference 1922 JHS 42: 8th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. lvi.SPHS C.1380. Link to article