Finds 887
Main Information
| Finds ID | 887 |
| Site |
Kastello Phournis |
| Area |
ID 364 undefined |
| Research event | excavation: rescue Kastello Phournis Rescue Excavation 1959 |
| Finds type | pottery |
| Small finds category | None |
| Small finds type | |
| Botany species | |
| Animal remains species | |
| Animal remains completeness | None |
| Animal remains part | |
| Lithics technology | |
| Lithics industry | |
| Lithics cores and preparation | |
| Lithics retouched tools | |
| Lithics unretouched tools | |
| Lithics raw material | |
| Obsidian | None |
| Obsidian amount | None |
| Pottery form | |
| Pottery detail |
Flaring rim Flat base Strap handle Tubular lug |
| Pottery decoration |
Monochrome Painted Pattern burnished Plastic cordon decoration Pointillé decoration |
| Pottery type | None |
| Amount | 21-50 |
| Material | |
| Confidence | None |
| Comment | The pottery contained 34 whole vessels or diagnostic fragments. Most of the pottery was handmade, had thick walls, was heavily grogged and had a monochrome and smoothed surface. There were a lot of closed vessels with a cylindrical neck, most of them were amphorae with a long, cylindrical neck. They had a flat base and a bend in their bodies. They can be characterized by small vertical handles that were attached beneath the rim. Also found were amphorae that had two strap handles that were attached on the vessel's body, one narrow-necked amphora and some amphorae with a flaring rim. In general, the different handles included rounded or angular strap handles that were pulled up, tubular lugs, lug handles and flap handles that were either non-pierced or horizontally or vertically pierced. They could be decorated with pointillé-decoration, plastic cordon decoration, red pastose painting or pattern-burnish. The found forms can be primarily compared to the Final Neolithic pottery in Phaistos, to the Late Neolithic pottery from Knossos (especially the West-Court), and also to the Final Neolithic pottery from Nerokourou, from the Eileithyia-Cave and the Trapeza-Cave. The jugs are described separately. |
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