Palaikastro: Terracotta Frieze from the Temple of Dictean Zeus

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/4229.8731
Level Item
Description Glass negative, half plate size, a copy negative taken from a photograph.
Dimensions 16 x 12 cm
Place Petsofas
Palaikastro
Dates 1905
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: "Petsofa: T.C. frieze. Temple of Dictean Zeus (BSA xi, pl. xv)".
Notes Date based on the excavation of the temple of Dictaean Zeus at Petsofa (peak sanctuary in the region of Palaikastro) and the publication of a drawing of the object.
Reference 1905. BSA 11: pl. XV. Link to article