Accession No

1926.159


Description

Three sherds, including two rims and a handle fragment. Red-orange fabrics. The rims are of thin fabric, tapering further towards the rim edge. One features a white slip with a band of red geometric decoration in the form of interconnected diamonds. The handle is of rod form and slightly curved.


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

1926.159


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)
Ex-display label (handwritten) reads: 'White-on-red'. Written on reverse in biro in a different hand: 'Tsangli, Level II, Early Neo.'
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A1, A3B - Classification of Wace.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Level II. 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 II.'
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
One rim sherd and one handle sherd present. Also one old label accompanying object, reads: "Tsangli, level II Early Neo".

Event Date 18/10/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
One rim sherd found elsewhere, marked Tsangli Level II, 1926.159. White slipped redware, with red diamond pattern in the slip.
Event Date 12/7/2001
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Three sherds, including two rims and a handle fragment. Red-orange fabrics. The rims are of thin fabric, tapering further towards the rim edge. One features a white slip with a band of red geometric decoration in the form of interconnected diamonds. The handle is of rod form and slightly curved.
Event Date 8/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


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