Identifier: prehistoricthess00wace (find matches)
Title: Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wace, A. J. B. (Alan John Bayard), 1879-1957 Thompson, Maurice Scott
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Publisher: Cambridge : The University Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 32. Minyan vases from cist tombs at Sesklo, a (scale 3 : 5) from Tomb 36,b (scale I : 2) from Tomb 13. Minyan Ware. A fair amount was found in the tombs. A good exampleof the typical shape, a goblet with a ringed foot, comes in Tomb 28 ; threespecimens of another common shape, a cup with two handles standing highabove the rim (Fig. 32 a), were found in Tombs 10, 32 and 36 ; five examplesof another shape, a jug with horizontal flutings and two small handles justunder the rim (Fig. 32 b), were found in Tombs 13, 25, 36, 44 and 56 ; and apyxis and a kyathos come from Tombs 7 and 53. Sesklo, ArchitectureArchitecture. 63 Although all the architectural remains are shown on the plan, Fig. 33, onlythe more important and more complete buildings are described in the followingaccount, and the large number of inorganic and fragmentary walls are omitted. ,.,
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IZZ FIRST PERIOD^m SECOND PERIOD^ LATER WALLSFig. 33. Sesklo ; plan after Tsundas. A-2, Il. 3. Fortunately the deficiencies in the architectural evidence from Sesklo can berectified to a great e.Ktent by a study of the remains at Dhimini. 64 Sesklo, u^rchitecflire First Period. Fortifications. At the eastern end of the site are the remains of walls,built of stones set in mud and thicker than ordinary house walls (20, 2 i on Plan),which Tsundas conjectures to have been fortifications analogous to the laterring walls at Dhimini, A-S, pp. 75, 76. This, though probable, cannot beproved, as the evidence is insufficient. Houses. Two different methods of construction can be noticed, both ofwhich continued in use side by side throughout the succeeding periods. (A) Wattle and Daub on a wooden frame work. Numerous fragmentsof clay still showing the impressions of wooden poles and reeds were found andfrom a study of these remains Tsundas has come to the conclusion that the roofwas sloped and per

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