Accession No

1926.328 A


Description

Two sherds of different vessels. One everted rim sherd of micaceous buff fabric with grey core and red slip on exterior and interior as well as pulled horizontal handle emerging from rim. One body sherd of micaceous buff fabric with brown slip and incised hatched pattern on exterior.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; ?Central Macedonia; ?Eastern Macedonia and Thrace; Sarakli


Period

Middle Bronze Age


Source

Hutchinson, Richard W. [donor]; ?Welch, F. B. [collector]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.328 A


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: 'SARAKLI. M.B.A.'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (Field collection)
Collected by F.B. Welch?
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1926.328 A-E: 'Potsherds of various dates: A: Middle Bronze Age: two fragments, red ware, one with incised ornament. B: Late Bronze Age (practically contemporary with Mycenean): one fragment of coarse grey ware, both surfaces striated; two of pink smooth-faced ware, one purple-on-buff. C: Mycenean, one fragment. D: Iron Age (post-Mycenean, pre-classical) rim, grey ware, the flat surface fluted. E: Three undated sherds.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes that these were possibly collected by F.B. Welch. This site is not mentioned in the publications of the 1926 Vardaroftsi excavations, and its exact location is uncertain (see Heurtley, W.A. and Hutchinson, R.W. (1925/26). 'Report on the Excavations at the Toumba and Tables of Vardaroftsa, Macedonia, 1925, 1926: Part I. The Toumba.' The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 27. pp. 1-66; see Heurtley, W.A. & Davies, O. (1926). 'Report on the Excavations at the Toumba and Tables of Vardaróftsa, Macedonia, 1925, 1926; Part I.' The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 28. pp. 195-200.).
Event Date 15/3/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Two sherds of different vessels. One everted rim sherd of micaceous buff fabric with grey core and red slip on exterior and interior as well as pulled horizontal handle emerging from rim. One body sherd of micaceous buff fabric with brown slip and incised hatched pattern on exterior.
Event Date 18/3/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:49565

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