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Geraki - female head [fragment of Archaic statue head, back right]

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/53/17
Geraki - female head [fragment of Archaic statue head, back right]
Geraki - female head [fragment of Archaic statue head, back right]

Scope and Contents

From the File:

50 halfplate negatives. The Index as filled in by AJBW only goes up to and includes Item 39.
Many negatives removed long before accession to the Faculty Archives, as part of an 'HS Series', by AJBW.
Includes views of Pergamon in western Asia Minor (Turkey), the island of Delos, Geraki and Mistras in Lakonia, classical sculpture in museum collections in Rome and Turin, pottery in Thessaly, the Acropolis of Athens, Lykabettos, the British School at Athens Hostel and finally, a loose negative of the screen of the church in the Kastro (fort) on the island of Skiathos.
Wace excavated at Geraki (the ancient Geronthrae) between May 26 and June 6 of 1905.
British School excavations began at Sparta in May 1906.

Creator

Bibliography

Wace, A. (1905). II.—Geraki: 2.—Sculptures. Annual of the British School at Athens, 11, 99-105, pp. 102-103, Fig. 5

Repository Details

Part of the University of Cambridge: Faculty of Classics Archives Repository

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