Accession No

1926.180


Description

Two sherds. One rim sherd of buff fabric with red and brown painted decoration; simple upright rim; on exterior brown pattern of an arch of lozenges, on interior red pattern of lozenges. One base sherd of buff-pinkish fabric with red painted decoration; wide footring with sagging base; on exterior band of red triple lozenges, on interior red cross like decoration; footring delaminating.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Thessaly; Sesklo


Period

Early Neolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.180


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

138mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten paper tag reading in blue biro ink: 'Sesklo Early Neolithic. 26.180. Box 440' and on the back in blue biro ink: 'Z 31343 - 2 sherds' as well as in black ink: Z 22027'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (Display)
Handwritten display label reading in black ink: 'Unstratified sherds from SESKLO, the type-site of the Early Neolithic culture.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Labels & Markings)
Both marked in black ink reading: 'Sesklo Unstratified', and marked in pencil reading: 'A3β'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (Field collection)
Unstratisfied finds.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Pottery types present: A3B1 - Classification of Wace
Event Date
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. 58-74
Event Date 1912
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Examples of decorated pottery, etc. from level unstratified.'
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Two sherds present, one base and one rim sherd, both decorated.
Event Date 18/10/2000
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Two sherds. One rim sherd of buff fabric with red and brown painted decoration; simple upright rim; on exterior brown pattern of an arch of lozenges, on interior red pattern of lozenges. One base sherd of buff-pinkish fabric with red painted decoration; wide footring with sagging base; on exterior band of red triple lozenges, on interior red cross like decoration; footring delaminating.
Event Date 8/3/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:49542

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