Photograph·8_PV_3675·1933

Vounous: bird-shaped (?) vase painted in dark red

Vounous: bird-shaped (?) vase painted in dark red
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1933. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3675. "Vounous: bird-shaped (?) vase painted in dark red". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative of 1933 by Claude Schaeffer showing a bird-shaped (?) vase painted in dark red, from his excavation at Vounous in Cyprus. The negative is gelatin silver, 13 × 18 cm.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Vounous : Vase ornithoforme (?) peint en rouge foncé

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