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Mycenae 1954 House of Sphinxes I, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/MCNE/1/1/60
Mycenae 1954 House of Sphinxes I
Mycenae 1954 House of Sphinxes I

Scope and Contents

1954 Excavation Notebook for the House of Sphinxes and the House of the Oil Merchant compiled by E. B. (Lisa) Wace. Book 1 of 2. Daily account of excavation on r. and sketch plans and small finds notes on v. Observations primarily focus on House of Sphinxes rooms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, corridor and the North Wall. House of the Oil Merchant notes included between entries for House of the Sphinxes. Extensive papse notes for both Houses at the back of... the notebook.
4 inserts: 2 scaled plans in pencil on tracing paper originally pasted in at p. 58 and p.77 dated July 1954;
2 folios of typescript correspondence between AJBW and Dr Hans Helbaek (Copenhagen) dated 3rd and 19th November 1954, regarding sampling seeds found during the 1954 excavations.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1954

Creator

Extent

1 notebook(s) (1 notebook)

4 item(s) (4 inserts)

Language of Materials

English

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