113: Spiral and Lotus Design

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/4/13
Level Item
Dimensions 45.6 x 73.4 cm
Scope and Content Card base with a watercolour illustration of a frieze attached. The number 113 is pasted in the lower left corner. '99a' is faintly written in blue pencil in the lower right corner. '25%' is written in pencil on the lower edge. Some other writing in pencil is visible below the image: " [??] with 112", "Reduce to 1/4 linear", "turn", and an "a" in a circle. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Spiral and lotus design, found by Tsountas near the Western portal, possibly L.H. II (1500-1400 B.C.): reconstructed drawing."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Palace Frescoes"
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/6840.C6849], View of Mycenaean vases and frescoes from the BSA excavations at Phylakopi (No. 105-115) in the gallery space of the 1936 exhibition at Burlington House, London, 1936