Sparta, Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: Ivory couchant animals

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 02/2/8303.NN13
Level Item
Description Photographs pasted onto a card with SPHS catalogue information on reverse.
Dimensions Card: 23 x 28cm
Place Sparta Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1906-1910
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Sparta Excavation 1906-1910
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images, 1906-10, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. Uncatalogued print with no number and not listed in the SPHS negative register.
Notes Date range is based on the excavation of Sparta 1906-1910. The description of the image on reverse reads: "Ivory couchant animals from Sparta. Artemis Orthia pl. CXLIX". Objects shown in SPHS 6892 and SPHS 8039 (see related records) in this mock-up of the published plate.
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/2610.6892], Sparta, Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: Ivory couchant animals, 1906-1908
[BSA SPHS 01/3039.8039], Sparta, Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: Ivory couchant animals, 1906-1908
Reference Dawkins, R.M. 1929. The sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. pl. CXLIX.