Palaikastro: LMII flask (front view)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/4263.8821
Level Item
Description Glass negative, half plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 17.5 x 13 cm
Place Roussolakkos: Block B
Roussolakkos
Palaikastro
Dates 1903
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: LMII jug".
Notes Described on p. 287 of BSA IX as a flask decorated with a 'polyp' [i.e. octopus] motif. For a side view of this flask, see related record BSA SPHS 01/4265.8823.
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/0248.1467], Palaikastro: Gourd Vase, 1903
[BSA SPHS 03/0249.1467], Palaikastro: Gourd Vase, 1903
[BSA SPHS 01/3835.7305], Palaikastro: Drawings of L.M. octopus flask, jug with papyrus design and three rhyta, 1902-1906
[BSA SPHS 01/4265.8823], Palaikastro: LMII flask (side view), 1903