Accession No
1951.1080 CC
Description
Flask of buff fabric. Globular to pear-shaped body. Slipped and polished evenly. Medium red surface with brown patches changing to black upper body; lime-filled incised decoration on upper part of the body: bands of three paralel horizontal lines alternating with horizontal zigzags of three lines. Neck broken off and missing.
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
1951.1080 CC; 60 [Finds No.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery; Lime
Local Term
Measurements
82mm x 84mm
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
The following pots from Tomb 144 are missing 3, 5-8, 13- 14, 26, 29, 32, 24, 36-37, 39, 43-45, 48-49, 51-54, 56-57 and 61- 67.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: 'VOUNOUS. T. 144. No: 60.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Field collection)
Tomb 144, no. 60. Vounous Site B. Excavated by James Stewart, British School at Athens, 1937-1938. The dromos had been destroyed by the chamber of Tomb 123 and Tomb 144 itself was partly destroyed. The disturbed nature of this tomb made it impossible to determine the number of burials present, though the size suggested a single skeleton.
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. 341 with Plate XL a
Event Date 1950
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Incised flask with neck missing.
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)
Flask of buff fabric. Globular to pear-shaped body. Slipped and polished evenly. Medium red surface with brown patches changing to black upper body; lime-filled incised decoration on upper part of the body: bands of three paralel horizontal lines alternating with horizontal zigzags of three lines. Neck broken off and missing.
Event Date 27/2/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Other)
There is a small plastic zip bag associated with the object containing a soil sample from contents inside 1951.1080 CC.
Event Date 27/2/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:284790
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