Accession No

1951.1082 E


Description

Incomplete, reconstructed pot. Small, everted rim; long, constricted neck flaring to body; globular body; very small, flat base. Incised decoration comprising groups of horizontal and oblique lines on neck and body and a band of concentric circles and dots around base of neck; lime fills the incised decoration. Slipped and polished, with grey-black neck and red body. Four sherd detached but present, including one refitted from two sherds.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Cyprus; Kyrenia District; Bellapais; Vounous


Period

Early Bronze Age


Source

Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Fitzwilliam Museum [collector]; Stewart, James Rivers Barrington [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1951.1082 E; 5 [Finds No.]; 153


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime


Local Term


Measurements

318mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink on body: '153'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou


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: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Field collection)
Tomb 153, no. 5, Vounous 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. p. 187, No. 5, Pl. XXIIa.
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Stewart (1950): 'Pot. Swollen ovoid body with flat base; tall tapering neck with everted rim, horizontal piercing below rim. Very well mixed clay with fine grit and straw grog, fired orange-buff with light grey interior, dark grey shading to buff interior on the neck. Slipped and polished evenly. Medium red surface shading through red-brown to black on the upper neck; white-filled incised decoration. Height 31.8 cms., width 18.1 cms.'
Event Date 1950
Author: Danlei Zhou


Description (Physical description)
Pot with globular body and high tapering neck.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Acquisition Details)
Tansferred 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)
Pot with globular body and high tapering neck, mouth missing. Incised decoration on body and neck comprised of horizontal and diagonal lines, rings and dots. Reconstructed from sherds.
Event Date 3/12/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Incomplete, reconstructed pot. Small, everted rim; long, constricted neck flaring to body; globular body; very small, flat base. Incised decoration comprising groups of horizontal and oblique lines on neck and body and a band of concentric circles and dots around base of neck; lime fills the incised decoration. Slipped and polished, with grey-black neck and red body. Four sherd detached but present, including one refitted from two sherds.
Event Date 26/2/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou


FM:280434

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