Accession No
1926.150 A
Description
Five sherds. one thick everted rim sherd, with red polished glaze on external side and both sides of rim; black on the interior. Red glaze on white rim sherds, creating a white diamond-shape with red in each corner. Everted rim sherd of white glaze with red linear decoration in triangle shape. Red ware body sherd with white slip and red linear decoration within a band. Small body sherd, black on one side; red on the other with white circle and zigzag line decoration.
Place
Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Tsani Mgoula
Period
Early Neolithic
Source
Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Wace, Alan John Bayard (Professor) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1926.150 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Display)
Old handwritten display label associated with 1926.150-151 reads: 'TSANI, LEVELS I-II. At this site red-on-white painted ware may be seen to develop from a block-pattern to a linear style.' And above in a different hand: 'Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Display)
Display label reads: 'White-on-Red'.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label reads: Tsani Level I Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Description for for 1926.150 [A-B]: Pottery types present: AI, A3a, A3B(2) - after classification of Wace'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Level I. Excavated by Alan J.B. Wace, British School at Athens, 1909.
Event Date 1909
Author: maa
Context (References)
Wace, Alan J. & Thompson, Maurice S. (1912). Prehistoric Thessaly: Being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 135-149
Event Date 1912
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1926.150 [A-B]: 'Examples of decorated pottery etc. from Level I.'
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Description for for 1926.150 [A-B]: 'Seven pieces found, three rim sherd, four body sherds. Five pieces are decorated with red or red/brown on white.'
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Five sherds. one thick everted rim sherd, with red polished glaze on external side and both sides of rim; black on the interior. Red glaze on white rim sherds, creating a white diamond-shape with red in each corner. Everted rim sherd of white glaze with red linear decoration in triangle shape. Red ware body sherd with white slip and red linear decoration within a band. Small body sherd, black on one side; red on the other with white circle and zigzag line decoration.
Event Date 8/3/2024
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:49512
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