Accession No

1926.167


Description

Five sherds of red fabrics. Including one fine and everted rim sherd and a substantial base fragment. This base has a large, concave foot ring and brown accretions on one surface. One body sherd features a flat protrusion. Several sherds include geometric decoration in the form of lines or cross-hatching.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Zerelia


Period

Early Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.167


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Display)
Display label for 1926.167-9 reads, printed: 'Zerelia, Levels I-IV' and handwritten below: 'Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with object reads: 'Zerelia level I / Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


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


Context (Field collection)
Level I. Excavated by Alan J.B. Wace, British School at Athens, 1908.
Event Date 1908
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. 150-166
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)
Five sherds of red fabrics. Including one fine and everted rim sherd and a substantial base fragment. This base has a large, concave foot ring and brown accretions on one surface. One body sherd features a flat protrusion. Several sherds include geometric decoration in the form of lines or cross-hatching.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Most sherds marked in black ink with 'ZERELIA I'.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


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