Accession No

1926.177


Description

Eleven sherds; including one everted and two simple rims and one strap handle fragment. Red fabrics; buff slip on top with red geometric decoration in the form of parallel straight or wavy lines. One small sherd has a burnished surface.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Leianokladi [Lianokhladi]


Period

Early Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.177


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Display)
Handwritten old display labels found with objects read: 'Red on white scraped ware. The surface is covered with a white & then with a red slip. The red is then scraped away to expose the white in striped or wavy patterns'; 'LIANOKLADHI, LEVEL I', and written beneath in another hand: 'Early Neolithic'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked with black ink: 'LIANOKLADHI I'. Some sherds also have the Wace classification marked on with a pencil.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A3B3, A3[delta] - Classification of Wace.

Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Level I. Excavated by Alan J.B. Wace, British School at Athens, 1909.
Event Date 1909
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)
Old exhibition label accompanies sherds.
Event Date 25/7/2000
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Eleven sherds; including one everted and two simple rims and one strap handle fragment. Red fabrics; buff slip on top with red geometric decoration in the form of parallel straight or wavy lines. One small sherd has a burnished surface.
Event Date 12/3/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:49539

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