Context (Display)
Large rectangular handwritten display label reads: 'Early Bronze Age (Red Polished) pottery from Vounous excavated by J. A. Stewart. See: 'Vounous 1937-8' by James & Eleanor Stewart. (Lund 1950). Transferred from the Museum of Classical Archaeology 1951.'
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Display)
Rectangular handwritten display label reads: 'Cult vessel. Tomb 153.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Deep basin with four animal-headed bowls on the rim (a fourth restored). Height to rim 23.4 cm. Chamber No.1.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Other)
There was an ear-lug pot in the filling of the dromos but this was destroyed by a shepherd and no longer exists. Pottery vessels 9-10, 12, 22-23, 25 and 27 are also missing and spindle whorl No.15. There had been two burials in the chamber, an earlier one being cleared away to leave room for a later. See card 1951.1074
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Find number 1, Tomb 153, Site A. Excavated by James Stewart, British School at Athens, 1937-1938.
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Stewart, James and Stewart, Eleanor. (1950). Vounous 1937-38: Field Report on the Excavations Sponsored by the British School of Archaeology at Athens. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup. pp. 184-192; Plates XXII (a) and LXXXIX (b); details Plate XC (a-c) .
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Acquisition Details)
Transferred from the Fitzwilliam Museum to the Museum of Classical Archaeology in 1938, then transferred from the Museum of Classical Archaeology to MAA in November 1951. Other material from Vounous was transferred to the Nicholson Museum, National Museums Liverpool and Manchester Museum (see archive BR6/1/3 for list).
Event Date 11/1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Large, rounded bowl of red polished ware with four small animal-headed rim-bowls attached, one reconstructed and one detached but present. Wide mouth with simple rim featuring four rim-bowels; single horizontal loop handle attached to body wall at mid-point, rectangular lug handle projecting from opposite wall; body tapers to stump-like pedestal base. Each rim-bowl features two animal head projections and a squared tail-like projection on their rim; the exterior surface of each rim-bowl is covered with a series of incised horizontal and slanted lines, some containing traces of original lime infill. Well mixed clay with fine grit and straw grog, fired to reddish buff with dark grey core; finished with evenly polished light red slip; lower interior surface transitions from red to black, possibly sooting. Vessel reconstructed from sherds with one section of body and rim including one rim bowl reconstructed from painted plaster; one rim bowl and three animal projections detached but present.
Event Date 13/3/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal