Accession No

1926.169


Description

Two sherds from different vessels. One rim sherd of red on buff ware; with simple rim and darker diagonal lines on external side. One small sherd with white surface, red horizontal lines on one side and two bands decorated with square pattern on the other.


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

1926.169


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'. Small display label for 1926.169 reads: 'Red-on-buff'.
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna


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


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A3B, A3Y - Classification of Wace
Event Date 11/6/1992
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
One body sherd, red square pattern on buff, on heavy, red rim sherd.
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Two sherds from different vessels. One rim sherd of red on buff ware; with simple rim and darker diagonal lines on external side. One small sherd with white surface, red horizontal lines on one side and two bands decorated with square pattern on the other.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Clare McKenna


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