Context (Other)
The following pottery vessels are missing; Nos. 6, 16, 17, 21 and 33. See card 1951.1074.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Find number 3, Tomb 90, 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. pp. 88-94 and Plate IX.
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card notes that 'there were no sherds in the dromos of this tomb, all pottery coming from the chamber. There were two skeletons in this tomb, probably male and female, deposited at the same time. A spindle whorl accompanied the female (Skeleton B) and a bronze knife and whetstone the male (Skeleton A). None of these objects were handed over to this museum'.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Jug with swollen piriform body and cut away spout.
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)

Description (Physical description)
Large, swollen piriform jug with cut-away spout atop tall neck; two circular nodules with flattened and pierced tops project from neck below rim either side of handle; single vertical rod handle springs from spout to shoulder; potter’s mark on top of handle; raised horizontal band rings neck, the surface decorated with two parallel lines of evenly spaced incised dots; swollen piriform body tapers to a small, flat base. Well mixed clay with large amounts of grit and straw grog, fired to medium buff with grey core; surface covered with dark red slip, evenly polished to near matt finish. Reconstructed from sherds with areas of plaster infill.
Event Date 14/3/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal