Sherd

Object Number

SMP18143

Name

Sherd

Description

An assemblage of sherds

mosty Middle Byzantine (10th to 13th c.)

with some Early and Late Byzantine sherds

as well as later material

spanning the Venetian period to the 20th century. The wares included are

in tentative chronological order (cf. Joanita Vroom

Byzantine to Modern Pottery in the Aegean

2014):
1) Early Byzantine Period - Cypriot red slipware (several fragments)

plain ware - unglazed small jugs

late Roman amphora 4

early plain glazed ware in red fabric (?

several fragments)
2) Middle Byzantine period - fine orange-red burnished ware

unglazed incised ware

plain glazed ware in white fabric (?

several fragments)

green and brown painted ware (many sherds from quite a few different vessels)

painted fine sgraffito ware (several fragments)

Gunsenin amphora 2
3) Late Byzantine/Frankish period - Zeuxippus ware and Zeuxippus Ware subtypes (?)

roulette ware
4) Turkish/Venetian period - Greek Maiolica (several fragments)

Miletus ware subtype (? likely misidentified)

porcelain

tobacco pipe

unglazed domestic ware
5) Early modern period - slip-painted ware from Crete (? or perhaps Marousi)
Also

a few unidentified fragments

and three metal objects (two horse-shoes

one unidentified).

Specimen Count

82

Preservation State

Fragment

Collection Date From

1959

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

SMP19130

EMu IRN

164758