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Forsdyke, Edgar J.; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]
Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,1): Prehistoric Aegean pottery — London, 1925

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] 8 PREHISTORIC AEGEAN TOTTERY.

base ; thin round loop handle. Clear red clay with smooth but stony surface ;
thin ware irregularly modelled.

A 86. CUP with handle and foot. Ht. 3J in. Found in digging military trenches at Baldza, PlATE

1916; presented'by L. Hume Chidson, 1920. Parts of lip. and foot restored, handle broken
away. Plandle as B.C.H., I.e. ii, fig. 21.

Deep oval body with wide mouth and turned out lip on which a vertical flat
loop handle was arched laterally, like the raking handles A 95. Clear light red
clay, heavy handmade ware with pared surface.

A 87-8. Fragments of pottery mostly found in pockets at Aivatli. These are

exactly similar to certain Neolithic fabrics of Thessaly.

A 87i-9. FRAGMENTS of black ware. L. 4.5 in. to 2 in. No. 4 from Dremiglava ; the rest were

found in a dug-out at Aivatli by Lieut. R. M. Don, 5th Black Watch, 1917. Fine hard pottery
with polished black surface. Nos. 1 and 2, from a large globular bowl, are burnt brown-red
below the shoulder and painted on the black part with two bands containing oblique groups of
fine lines in thin white pigment, as A 217 from Tsangli in Thessaly. Nos. 3 and 4, very thin
fragments from curved sides of bowls, have a brown band outside the lip ; this is the

Fig. 26.—Macedonian Pottery, showing Neolithic Connexions with Thessaly~(A 87-A

A 881^5.

natural colour of the clay, as it appears also in the fracture ; 3 has also painted decoration as
in 1 and 2. Nos. 5-8 are pieces of upright hollow rims from wide open bowls resembling in
shape the early red ware of Thessaly, A 101 ; 8 has a short tubular handle. The curved rims
are decorated with thin burnished lines, as in A 218 from Tsangli. No. 9, an upright neck
with globular body below, has oblique ridges lightly moulded on the shoulder ('rippled ware,'
as A 219). (Fig. 26.)

FRAGMENTS of red on white'ware. L. 2 in. to 4|-in. From Aivatli, as last. This is
the characteristic pottery of the First (Neolithic) period of Thessaly (A 138-165) : the local style
 
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