Object photograph·fol. 59r

Stone heads, figurines and reliefs

Stone heads in a top row, with small figures, reliefs and a fan-shaped slab in rows below, on a dark board. — Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 59r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Ten or so heads and busts stand in a row across the top of a dark board, ranging from a tall veiled head at the centre to a large head with curled hair at the right. Below them, two rows hold small figures, reliefs, a rectangular tablet, a bird, a seated figure, animal figures and a fan-shaped slab. The objects are arranged neatly, evenly spaced.

English

Stone heads, figurines and reliefs: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 59r.