Box
Category
Archaeological material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, Cloth, Flint, Obsidian, Paper, Pottery, Shell, Stone
Collection
Greenway, Devon
NT 122622
Summary
Cardboard box contains 2 cloth bags labelled T. Abiadh with 21 pottery fragments and 2 obsidian fragments and unmarked with 24 ceramic fragments, 1 glass vessel fragment, 5 pieces of white flint, 2 stone fragments with some fragments marked JEB, The box holds 56 miscellaneaous stone or ceramic fragments, specifically 1 anthropomorphic figurine, 16 zoomorphic figurines, 10 incised stones. Some marked with 'CT' and 'JNP' Stuart Blaylock 2008: Breaks down into Stone bowl sherds, animal figurines and protomes, stone axes, and stone amulets and reticulated pendants. Listed and photographs in greater detail on 3.x.08 than previously: /1 stone axes, x2: labelled ‘A 871 BD’ and ‘A 873 CB’ [photo 1316] /2 stone bowl sherds [photo 1317–18], top row, left to right: (i) pedestal bowl in basalt, labelled in ink: ‘EXIT BM (or RM?)’; (ii) veined quartzite or dolerite? labelled Pit shaft, JNP’; (iii) pale ?gypsum or similar labelled ‘Terrace Houses, JNP’; (iv) two joining fragments of black soapstone or similar (soft), forming a complete profile, with incised ornament on the flat rim, no marking that I could see. Middle row (left to right)¨ (v) rim sherd, not marked; (vi) rim sherd, marked ‘EB 3rd Dyn Level’; (vii) rim sherd, marked ‘Gang 9’ in pencil on one side and ‘F.100 or 105’ in ink on the other; (viii) hexagonal quartz crystal: natural. Bottom row (l;eft to right): (ix) joining sherds of a large bowl marked in oencil ‘E Chambers, Gt Court [?], three sherds, other small fragments in box probably join; (x) four small sherds of yellowish agate? Or similar (hard), one marked ‘T.H.Ct.’ (=Tell Halaf Court? – see elsewhere), others marked ‘B.H., [illegible] and [nothing]; (xi) two joining sherds of a gneiss bowl, one marked ‘LONG R JNP’ [?], the other ‘CR H top’. /3 Animal Figurines. A collection totalling 17 figurines in all, all ceramic, except one (top right in photograph), possibly a coarse sandstone or a very sandy clay fabric. [photos 1319–23 (general shot and details by rows); 1324 shows A668 the same way as in the published drawing] The human figurine (middle right) is also in a coarse sandy fabric. A variety of species is represented: digs, cows, a camel or horse and rider[?] (A668). Three are labelled, showing them to be from Chagar Bazar: A 689 (top left) is published in Mallowan 1937, fig. 10, no. 3; A668 (below) is Roman, published in Mallowan 1937, fig. 10.no.12); A675 (top right) is not listed in this publication, nor recognisable in the illustration. Others are labelled in pencil: centre row, top: [illegible]; third row, bottom: CTIII; next up: CTIII-IV; second from top: CTII. /4 Reticulated incised blocks or pendants. There are ten examples in all, one stone axe fragment (extreme r.h.s. of photo) and one pebble fragment, not incised, top right. Some are pierced for suspension; some are not. All the marked examples are marked CT plus ‘(a)’ or ‘(III)’. [photos 1325–27] Top row, left to right.
Marks and inscriptions
1430 Mallowan G.1.1940 for determination and return'