Accession No
1926.152
Description
Eight sherds. Including a simple rim of red fabric with painted decoration in the form of dark-brown parallel lines; one body sherd with a black burnished exterior surface; one pale-grey base sherd; a grey body sherd of circular shape, with painted grey decoration; two strap handle fragments, one with with two dark lines painted down its centre; a red body sherd decorated with brown parallel lines; and a substantial body sherd of red fabric, with a rounded protrusion.
Place
Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Tsani Mgoula
Period
Late Neolithic
Source
Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Wace, Alan John Bayard (Professor) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1926.152
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
'Marked in black ink: 'TSANI III'. Some also marked with their Wace classification in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A1, B3[delta], [GAMMA]1B, [GAMMA]1a - Classification of Wace.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Display)
'Handwritten old display label found with objects reads: 'TSANI, LEVEL III', and in another hand beneath 'Late Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Field collection)
Level III. 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 III.'
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Eight sherds. Including a simple rim of red fabric with painted decoration in the form of dark-brown parallel lines; one body sherd with a black burnished exterior surface; one pale-grey base sherd; a grey body sherd of circular shape, with painted grey decoration; two strap handle fragments, one with with two dark lines painted down its centre; a red body sherd decorated with brown parallel lines; and a substantial body sherd of red fabric, with a rounded protrusion.
Event Date 12/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle
FM:49514
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