Accession No

1926.158


Description

Two upright rim sherds. One of undecorated reddish-brown fabric with brown surface accretions; the other of red fabric with a buff slip on interior and exterior and red geometric decoration in the form of parallel diagonal lines.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Tsangli


Period

Early Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.158


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Display)
Handwritten ex-display label associated with 1926.158-161 reads: 'Tsangli, Levels I-IV'; and in another hand beneath: 'Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Context (Display)
Handwritten ex-display label found with objects reads: 'Red-on-buff scraped ware. The red slip is scraped away to expose the buff biscuit.' Note: This does not accurately reflect the object, which is slipped red ware. Reverse of label reads in a different hand: 'Level I / Tsangli / Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Labels & Markings)
One marked in pencil 'A1'; the other 'A3B'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


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


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A1 - Classification of Wace.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Level I. Excavated by Alan J.B. Wace, British School at Athens, 1910.
Event Date 1910
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. 86-130
Event Date 1912
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


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


Description (Physical description)
Two rim sherds, one red on buff, the other plain.
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Two upright rim sherds. One of undecorated reddish-brown fabric with brown surface accretions; the other of red fabric with a buff slip on interior and exterior and red geometric decoration in the form of parallel diagonal lines.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:49520

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