Knossos: View near the Queen's Megaron

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1484.3847
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from a photographic print.
Condition The sky area has been blacked out on the negative to produce a clean sky, eliminating marks and dust particles.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Palace of Minos
Knossos
Dates 1900
Donor/Creator Evans, Sir Arthur John
Myres, Sir John Linton
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: view near the Queen's Megaron?".
Notes Date based on the first year of excavation at Knossos when Myres was present. The initials JLM is written on the negative indicating that the photograph may have been taken by Myres. Number 174, crossed out, is written above the print may relate to numbers in the Evans archive in the Ashmolean, Oxford. It also appears as negative number 3847 in the J.L. Myres negative register held by the archives at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University. Register reads: "view fr. E. courtyard shewing steps".