Accession No

1926.172


Description

Ten sherds, including bases and rims. Various fabrics, including red, buff, brown, and grey. Several feature painted geometric decoration. One fragment includes base, wall, and rim of a shallow vessel; likely a bowl, with red-on-buff geometric decoration on its interior and exterior. Two base fragments have raised base rings; one is of very small circumference, the other features black surface discolouration on one side. One everted rim of red fabric. Also one dark-grey body sherd with a pronounced horizontal ridge with a vertical perforation through this ridge.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Rakhmani


Period

Early Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.172


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Display)
Handwritten ex-display labels with objects read: 'white monochrome', 'brown-on-white', 'black monochrome' 'white-on-red', 'red-on-buff', and 'Rakhmani, Level 1' with (in a different hand) below 'Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Rakhmani I'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A1, A3B, A4, A3E, [GAMMA]1a(?), A6 - Classification of Wace. A4 and A6 only occur at Rakmani.
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. 25-53
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)
Ten pieces found. Old exhibition labels accompany objects. One piece white monochrome. Others white on red, white on buff, brown on white and black monochrome.
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Ten sherds, including bases and rims. Various fabrics, including red, buff, brown, and grey. Several feature painted geometric decoration. One fragment includes base, wall, and rim of a shallow vessel; likely a bowl, with red-on-buff geometric decoration on its interior and exterior. Two base fragments have raised base rings; one is of very small circumference, the other features black surface discolouration on one side. One everted rim of red fabric. Also one dark-grey body sherd with a pronounced horizontal ridge with a vertical perforation through this ridge.
Event Date 11/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:49534

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