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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