Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink: 'VOUNOUS. T. 84 A. No. 31'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Other)
Pots numbered 18, 27 and 28 and pins numbered 29-30 are missing.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Number 31, from chamber of Tomb 84, 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.62-68, pl. VI A no. 31, and pl. LXVII b.
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card (1951.1074 A-CC) notes that 'These vessels are considered to be contemporary (Red Polish II) accompanying a single burial. The pottery is all handmade and mostly coated with a red slip. Sometimes the upper part of the vessels is fired black and the lower red. The incised ornament sometimes has a white inlay.'
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Small flask with tall neck, incised.
Event Date 1951
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)

Loan (Analysis)
Fitzwilliam Museum, 09/07/2019 to 31/12/2019, PhD study by Rafael Laoutari, at the request of Professor Cyprian Broodbank
Event Date 9/7/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum, 14/02/2023 to 14/05/2023, Being An Islander
Event Date 14/2/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Small flask, everted rim on slender neck that expands towards a globular body and rounded base, two pairs of pierced holes placed on opposing sides just below the rim. Incised line decoration of bands of straight horizontal and zig-zagged horizontal lines, lime fills the incised decoration. Outer surface well smoothed, exterior of body red polished, neck black polished.
Event Date 27/2/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck