Accession No

1926.157


Description

Five sherds; including two loop rod handles of buff and grey fabrics, with very curved forms; a fragment of a strap handle of reddish fabric with a grey core; an everted rim sherd of red-brown fabric; and an unusually shaped sherd (perhaps from a handle of a raking or wishbone type) of red fabric.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Tsani Mgoula


Period

Bronze Age


Source

Museum of Classical Archaeology [donor]; Wace, Alan John Bayard (Professor) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.157


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label with objects reads: 'Bronze Age / Tsani Level VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'TSANI VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Context (Display)
Handwritten old display label associated with 1926.153-157 reads: 'TSANI, LEVELS IV-VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: [GAMMA]3 - Classification of Wace.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Level VIII. Excavated by Alan J.B. Wace, British School at Athens, 1909.
Event Date 1909
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


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)


Context (Analysis)
Raking Handles. Compare examples from Macedonia.
Event Date 1926
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Examples of decorated pottery etc. from Level VIII.'
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Two handles, two rim sherds, and one further ?handle.
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Five sherds; including two loop rod handles of buff and grey fabrics, with very curved forms; a fragment of a strap handle of reddish fabric with a grey core; an everted rim sherd of red-brown fabric; and an unusually shaped sherd (perhaps from a handle of a raking or wishbone type) of red fabric.
Event Date 12/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:49519

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