Description (Physical description)
Description for 1951.2039 A-H: Small pottery vessels.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten in black ink on base of object reads: 'Tomb PB 64. BUL.1.1892.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Side-spouted jug of bucchero ware with funnel-shaped strainer mouth. From Tomb PB 64, Tamassos. See 1951.D.105 from the same tomb.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, Royal Berlin Museum, 1889.
Event Date 1889
Author: Clare McKenna

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: Clare McKenna

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. Other material from Tomassos was deposited with MAA directly by the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1951 and 1953.
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. Page 369, Fig 197, 10; 199 d-e.
Event Date 2010
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Gutus, a side-spouted jug of bucchero ware. Funnel-shaped mouth with inverted rim and strainer with six small holes in the depressed centre. A strap handle emerges beneath the rim to the body of the vessel; a spout emerges from the vessel at a right-angle to the handle. Small, narrow neck, conical body and circular base. Spout partially missing, chip at bottom.
Event Date 1/3/2024
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Analysis)
Buchholz, Hans-Günter et al. (2010) described this object as a baby feeding bottle. However, it seems more likely to have been a Gutus, a spouted vessel used to pour olive oil into an oil lamp. The strainer built into the gutus helps strain out the impurities in the olive oil.
Event Date 4/3/2024
Author: Clare McKenna