Photograph·8_PV_3680·1933

Vounous: Jug: woman carrying a child in a cradle (Early Bronze Age, 2300–2000 av. J. C.)

Vounous: Jug: woman carrying a child in a cradle (Early Bronze Age, 2300–2000 av. J. C.)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1933. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3680. "Vounous: Jug: woman carrying a child in a cradle (Early Bronze Age, 2300–2000 av. J. C.)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative in gelatin silver, 16.5 × 22 cm, made by Claude Schaeffer in 1933 at the Vounous site in Cyprus. It shows a pottery jug decorated with a woman carrying a child in a cradle, dated Early Bronze Age, 2300–2000 av. J. C.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Vounous : Cruche : femme portant un enfant dans un berceau (Bronze Ancien - 2300-2000 av. J. C.)

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