Accession No
1926.151
Description
Four sherds. Including one simple rim sherd of red fabric; one simple rim of buff fabric with paler slip and painted orange decoration in the form of curved and wavy lines; one grey simple rim sherd with geometric decoration; and a body sherd (from beneath an everted rim) of red fabric, with buff slip and red geometric 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
1926.151
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label with objects reads: 'Tsani Level II / Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
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
Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'TSANI II'. Also marked with their Wace classification in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: AI, A3B(2), [GAMMA]iB - Classification of Wace.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Level II. 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: 'Examples of decorated pottery etc. from Level II.'
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Three rim sherds, one decorated red on white, one grey ware and one red-ware and one body sherd, decorated red on white.
Event Date 7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle
Description (Physical description)
Four sherds. Including one simple rim sherd of red fabric; one simple rim of buff fabric with paler slip and painted orange decoration in the form of curved and wavy lines; one grey simple rim sherd with geometric decoration; and a body sherd (from beneath an everted rim) of red fabric, with buff slip and red geometric decoration.
Event Date 12/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle
FM:49513
Images (Click to view full size):