Palaikastro: LM II Pithos

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/2401.6427
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full pate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 21.5 x 16 cm
Place Roussolakkos: Block B
Roussolakkos
Palaikastro
Dates 1902
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Palaikastro Excavation 1902-1906
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Palaikastro, Crete in the 1902-1905. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Palaikastro: LM II Pithos (BM No. A 738, BSA Supp I pl. xxii f)".
Notes Likely to have been discovered in the first season of excavation in Block B of Roussolakkos and described in the 1902 BSA excavation report on p. 316. British Museum Vase number A738 is Museum number GR 1907,0119.595; it is catalogued as a LMI pottery jar decorated with relief rosettes on shoulder and relief band at neck, donated by the British School at Athens in 1907.
Reference The unpublished objects from the Palaikastro excavations, 1902-1906, Part I. 1: pl. XXII.f.
Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum Vol. 1, Part 1: Prehistoric Aegean Pottery. 123, fig. 164.No. A 738.