negative(black and white)
- Museum number
- Eu,F.N.3671
- Description
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Negative (black and white); view of an archaeological site with a sculpture of Apollo and stone wall behind the sculpture; Knossos, Greece.
Photographic process
- Production date
- 20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.30 centimetres
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Width: 7.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Eu-F.N.-3634 through 3733 are one collection and Eu-A6-1 through 100 are prints for this group of negatives. Eu-F.N.-3667 shows the sculpture of this negative in a larger context, in the Temple of Apollo.
Production: This photograph was taken by one of the Seligmans in Crete. The negative was originally housed in an envelope, which bears the inscription: "Gortyna, Apollo in costume of ?".
Bibliography: Fortes, Meyer; 'Brenda Zara Seligman, 1882-1965: A Memoir' in
Man, Vol. 65, (Nov. - Dec., 1965), pp. 178
Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Negative has silvering around the edges.
Upper corner, small abrasion.
Digital copy: saturation and levels adjusted.
- Acquisition date
- 20thC
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Eu,F.N.3671
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 38 (Seligman negative number)
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Miscellaneous number: Eu-A6-52 (British Museum print number)