Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note in Miles Burkitt's hand found with object reads 'Bought by M.C. Burkitt in Athens sometime in the 'Twenties.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Black figure bowl with procession of storks or ducks in metopes, with swastikas. The bowl has two strap handles with "free" ends curving away from the wall of the bowl. One of these is slightly chipped.
Event Date 18/6/1992
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
'50' written twice on bottom in pencil, possibly the price Burkitt paid for object?
Event Date 30/11/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Ceramic bowl, reconstructed from sherds, everted rim on a short upright neck, carinated upper shoulders tapering to a flat splayed base, two horizontal flat handles on opposing sides attached to upper shoulders with ends slightly recurved. Interior surface with brown or dark red slip with band of unslipped clay. Exterior surface in black or dark red pigment with bands of lines or dots on rim and lower body, upper shoulders divided into square panels by bands of vertical lines; squares filled in with central bird motif, possibly ducks or storks; hooked cross in upper left corner; vertical line of chevrons bottom right corner, possibly representing leaves or plant; roughly circular cluster of dots bottom left corner. Outer material buff to light pink or orange in colour.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck