Accession No

1926.168


Description

Four red ware sherds from multiple vessels. Strap handle sherd emerging from rounded rim of a large vessel; sherd from a thin vessel; body sherd with white surface decoration and red lines in triangular shape; base sherd with thin footring.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Zerelia


Period

Early Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.168


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note reads: 'Zerelia Level II Early Neolithic'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna


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


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A1, A1[delta] - Classification of Wace
Event Date
Author: maa


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


Description (Physical description)
Part of a base, handle from large vessel, two body sherds, one of which is decorated in red on buff
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Four red ware sherds from multiple vessels. Strap handle sherd emerging from rounded rim of a large vessel; sherd from a thin vessel; body sherd with white surface decoration and red lines in triangular shape; base sherd with thin footring.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Clare McKenna


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