Accession No

1926.162 A-M


Description

Thirteen sherds, including rim, base, and handle fragments. Mixed fabrics, including red and grey; many with geometric decoration painted onto their surfaces. Also several fragments of dark burnished ware with stabbed and incised geometric decorations, some with traces of lime pressed into the incision lines. One thick, circular base fragment of red fabric features brown geometric decoration. This may belong with the rim fragment with a small loop handle, which also has red fabric and brown geometric decoration.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Tsangli


Period

Late Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.162 A-M


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Most sherds marked with black ink: 'Tsangli V'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with objects reads: 'Tsangli / Level V / Late Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Context (Display)
Handwritten ex-display label found with objects 1926.162-163 reads: 'Tsangli, levels V-VI.' And in another hand beneath 'Late Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1926.162 [A-N]: 'Pottery types present: A3B(1), B3a3, B3[delta], B3E, [GAMMA]1a1 (compare ware from Vardino I), [GAMMA]1B, [GAMMA]2 - Classification of Wace.'
Event Date
Author: maa


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


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1926.162 [A-N]: 'Includes greyware, a handle, incised pottery.'
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Thirteen sherds, including rim, base, and handle fragments. Mixed fabrics, including red and grey; many with geometric decoration painted onto their surfaces. Also several fragments of dark burnished ware with stabbed and incised geometric decorations, some with traces of lime pressed into the incision lines. One thick, circular base fragment of red fabric features brown geometric decoration. This may belong with the rim fragment with a small loop handle, which also has red fabric and brown geometric decoration.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:49524

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