Accession No

1926.173


Description

Six sherds; including five of various red and orange fabrics and one black burnished sherd with calcareous inclusions. Three simple rim sherds; including one with black discolouration on the surface; one with painted geometric decoration on interior and exterior, and burnished surfaces; and one with two decorative protrusions with circular perforations at top and bottom of these and faint traces of dark, painted geometric decoration. Also one deep-red, burnished sherd with handle attachment, featuring geometric decoration. And one orange body sherd featuring on both interior and exterior surfaces brown-painted geometric shapes infilled with parallel lines or cross-hatching.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Rakhmani


Period

Late Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.173


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Rhakmani / II'. Also marked with their Wace classifications in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Context (Display)
Handwritten old display label reads: 'RAKHMANI, LEVEL II', and in a different hand beneath: 'Late Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A5a, B1, B3a1, B3a2 - Classification of Wace. A5a only occurs at Rakmani.

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. 25-53
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)
Six pieces found. One plain sherd, one small black piece, three decorated sherds and a rim sherd.
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Six sherds; including five of various red and orange fabrics and one black burnished sherd with calcareous inclusions. Three simple rim sherds; including one with black discolouration on the surface; one with painted geometric decoration on interior and exterior, and burnished surfaces; and one with two decorative protrusions with circular perforations at top and bottom of these and faint traces of dark, painted geometric decoration. Also one deep-red, burnished sherd with handle attachment, featuring geometric decoration. And one orange body sherd featuring on both interior and exterior surfaces brown-painted geometric shapes infilled with parallel lines or cross-hatching.
Event Date 12/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:49535

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