Accession No
1956.251 A.2
Description
A footed vessel of brown fabric with an everted rim, concave neck, angular shoulder and cylindrical foot ring. The rim and neck are burnished, the lower half of the body and the foot ring are cord-marked.
Place
Asia; Southeast Asia; Malaysia; Peninsular Malaysia; Kelantan; Gua Cha
Period
Neolithic
Source
Federation of Malaya, Museums Department [donor]; Sieveking, Gale de Giberne [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1956.251 A.2
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
78mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Burial 8. Excavated by Gale de Giberne Sieveking, March-May 1954, as part of an expedition by the National Museum, Kuala Lampur and the Raffles Museum, Singapore.
Event Date 1954
Author: maa
Context (References)
de G. Sieveking, G. (1954). ‘Excavations at Gua Cha, Kelantan (part 1)’. Federation Museums Journal, vol. 1/2 (n.s.). pp. 75-138. Fig 12.1
Event Date 1954
Author: Emily Shorter
Context (References)
de G. Sieveking, G. (1955). 'Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Malaya (1954)’. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 28(1). pp. 196–217
Event Date 1955
Author: Emily Shorter
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1956.252 A[.2]: 'One pedestalled pottery bowl. Probably wheel made. Carinated profile. Interior black burnished and slipped. Exterior burnished from rim to carination, lower zone and foot decorated by impressions in groups of diagonal lines.'
Event Date 1956
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
A footed vessel of brown fabric with an everted rim, concave neck, angular shoulder and cylindrical foot ring. The rim and neck are burnished, the lower half of the body and the foot ring are cord-marked.
Event Date 11/10/2023
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:304683
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