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Accession_Number 14.9.12
Shape
Shape_description Fragment
Material Terracotta
Fabric Thessalian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 8/2
Decoration Creamy white throughout. Patterns in dull black. Rectangular patterns with lines inside with a right-angled crossings on outside and similar rectangle design inside but curved.
Inscriptions
Condition Paint wearing off from topside. Large chip to surface of underside - perhpas caused by an air bubble. Evidence of charring (?) on underside. No finished edges.
Technique/Style
Provenance Sesklo, Thessaly
Period Neolithic
Date 5300 - 4400
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2005.88.0002.jpg


2007.03.1257.jpg
Top view of a Thessalian fragment, showing the exterior rectangular patterns with lines inside.

2007.03.1258.jpg
Top view of a Thessalian fragment, showing the interior curved and rectangular pattern.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 7.4
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. Length 9.9 Thickness 0.6
Location Timeline 1 top
Edited_by Denise; Kinsey
Date_edited 19 September 2002; 16.01.2006
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