Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'HAL TARXIEN' and 'HT'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Amendments / updates)
Accession register and note found with fragments states "Neolithic"; however the catalogue card was amended to remove 'Neolithic' and replace it with 'Bronze Age - Phas Ic (Evans).'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Handwritten old display label reads: 'Phase 1C, Late. Fine burnished scratched ware, some with white incrustations. Rusticated and studded ware. Hal Tarxien.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated by Professor Zammit through the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Event Date 1924
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card: 'cf. The ornament in Bronze Age Pottery figured by M.A. Murray, Excavations in Malta [1923], Pl. III, 4.'
Event Date 1924
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Five fragments of pottery: grey polished ware with stabbed ornament; in two pieces the clay is slightly pressed up at the side of each stab.'
Event Date 1924
Author: maa

Context (References)
Zammit, T. (1930). Prehistoric Malta: The Tarxien Temples. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Event Date 1930
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Four sherds found, but the larger piece is two pieces which have been re-attached.
Event Date 5/2000
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Five sherds of buff grey ware. One polished rim sherd with everted rim and horizontal groove at base of rim. One polished rim fragment with everted rim, reconstructed from two sherds. One small rim sherd with possibly externally rolled rim. Two body sherds, one with carination. All with short incised lines or stabbed decoration.
Event Date 26/3/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou