Accession No

1951.2012 F


Description

Pottery barrel-flask or juglet in bichrome ware. Narrow, flared neck; single vertical loop handle from neck to shoulder; barrel-shaped body with a nipple in the centre of each rounded end. Buff clay and slip, decorated in black-purple paint of concentric circles on each end of the barrel and bands on neck and handle. Rim and part of base broken off and missing; cracks on body.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Cyprus; Nicosia District; Politiko; Tamassos


Period

Iron Age Cypro-Geometric


Source

Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Fitzwilliam Museum [collector]; Bulwer, Henry H. (Sir) [collector]; Ohnefalsch-Richter, Max [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1951.2012 F


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

75mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked "Bul 25".

[Note: the correct tomb number is 26 rather than 25; object also marked in pencil '26'. Jodi Zhang 29/02/2024]
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1951.2012 A-P: 'Sixteen jugs, juglets, cups, amphorae and other vessels dating from Cypro Geometric to Cypro Classic (mostly Cypro Geometric and Cypro Archaic). All wheelmade.
F: Juglet of similar shape to E. Rim damaged. Painted in black on white.'

Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Tomb 26. Excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, Royal Berlin Museum, 1889.
Event Date 1889
Author: Jodi Zhang


Context (Other owners)
Collected by Sir Henry Bulwer, High Commissioner for Cyprus 1886-1892, who purchased finds from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter’s excavations through Eustathios Constantinides and donated them to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1892 and 1907.
Event Date 1892
Author: Jodi Zhang


Context (Acquisition Details)
Transferred from the Fitzwilliam Museum to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, possibly in 1938, then transferred from the Museum of Classical Archaeology to MAA in November 1951.
Event Date 11/1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
Buchholz, Hans-Günter et al. (2010). Tamassos. Ein antiker Stadstaat im Bergbaugebiet von Zypern. Band I. Die Nekropolen I, II und III. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag. p.265, no.2.
Event Date 2010
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Pottery barrel-flask or juglet in bichrome ware. Narrow, flared neck; single vertical loop handle from neck to shoulder; barrel-shaped body with a nipple in the centre of each rounded end. Buff clay and slip, decorated in black-purple paint of concentric circles on each end of the barrel and bands on neck and handle. Rim and part of base broken off and missing; cracks on body.

Event Date 29/2/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang


FM:50264

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