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Gallery - Gallery of pottery artefacts


Globular shaped pot - belly, small roughly polished neck and flat brim. Flat, unaccentuated bottom. The belly is decorated with impressions of nails in vertical lines, starting from the shoulder to the bottom.
Rough facture, reddish brown colour.


Round shaped pyxis vessel with a flat shoulder, short vertical neck, perforated with 8 small holes. The positive aspect features four spirals in a row shaped with the wood-carving (engraving) technique. Identical features are found in amphorae and cups painted with dark brown colour. An ornament consisting of lines in the form of a cross is encarved at the bottom. It served as a pintadera.
Medium facture, brown – reddish colour.


Askos featuring a tall neck, slightly opened round shaped mouth. On one side, the belly is expanded - excentric and decorated with barbotine finger trailing. On the upper side, there is a vertical ribbon – like holder. On the other side, in line with the belly, there are two horizontal ribbon-like holders one blow the other, connected at the bottom with plastic ribs. Between them is a flanked carrying rope. Plastic stripes beging at the root of the handles, finishing as a bird leg. Flat bottom.
Rough facture, brown - grey colour.


Askos featuring a tall neck, slightly opened round shaped mouth. On one side, the belly is expanded – excentric and polished. On the upper side, there is a vertical ribbon-like handle. The back side when carried features two horizontal ribbon-like handles one below the other, connected with plastic ribs. Between them is the carrying rope. Plastic stripes beging at the root of the handles, finishing as a bird leg. Flat bottom.
Rough facture, light brown colour.


Small amphora featuring a tall conical neck and slightly flattened belly with four vertical tunnel-like handles, and flat bottom. Decorated with dark brown painted ornaments on red background. A set of spirals is visible on the neck. The root of the neck is emphasized with a thin line dividing into four vertical ribbons filled with olive leaves.
Good facture, reddish colour with engoba.


Small amphora featuring a tall conical neck and slightly flattened belly with three oval impressions and flat bottom. Decorated with dark brown painted ornaments on ochre background. On the neck, below the mouth is a set of rhombuses. The root of the neck is emphasized with an identical set, but with dots in the center of the rhombuses. Four vertical ribbons filled with olive leaves begin at the root of the neck, down the shoulder, to the belly. Two of them are colouerd, whereas the other two are webbed. Around the handles, there are three crescent-shaped lines going from the middle of the shoulder to the middle of the belly.
Good facture, light ochre colour, with engoba.


Amphora belly, neck missing. The belly is relatively flattened, with three oval impressions, flat bottom, slightly emphasized. Decorated with dark brown painted ornaments on red background. From the root of the neck down the shoulder and towards the belly are four vertical stripes filled with floral ornaments – olive leaves. Two of them are coloured, and two are webbed. Around the handles, there are two crescent shaped lines beginning above the shoulder and up to the middle of the belly.
Good facture, bright red colour with engoba.


Fragment of a belly and brim of a cup featuring a flat brim, just slightly closed, globular belly. The surface features a red engoba. It is painted with dark brown colour. The ornaments are floral, lotus flower with leaves underneath the brim and a horizontal line separating the shoulder from the belly. It also contains flowers.
Good facture, red colour.


Bell-shaped cup with flat brim, slightly opened. The surface features a red - ochre engoba. Remains of “hanging triangles” decoration painted under the brim. Thin lines grouped into ribbons derive from them, painted in brown colour. Burned under high temperature.
Good facture, reddish gray colour.


Bell-shaped cup with a flat brim, only slightly opened. Set upon a tall ring-like leg, hollow inside. The belly is decorated with a painted spiral repeated seven times. The empty parts below the mouth and inside the spiral are filled with web ornaments. There are small sprouts towards the leg.
Medium facture, light brown colour.


Semi-globular cup with a relatively open rim. The surface is covered with shiny engoba, decorated with vertical rays of red lines from the mouth to the leg. The bottom is placed on a small ring-like leg.


Fragment of a belly and brim of a bell-shaped cup with a flat brim and a slightly emphasized neck. The surface features an ochre engoba. It is decorated with dark brown striped hanging triangles starting from the mouth towards the shoulder. Out of them derive vertical long lines, all of the same thickness. A segment of three lines is found between two triangles.
Good facture, bright red colour.


Fragment of a belly and brim of a bell-shaped cup with flat rounded brim The surface features a red and ochre shiny engoba. Decorated with dark brown striped triangles stretching from the mouth to the shoulder. Vertical lines derive from them, combined with thinner ones. This is a combination of two hanging triangles whereby one stripe derives from one triangle and is followed by a second stripe deriving from the other. Inner lines are thin.
Good facture, bright red colour.


Fragmented cup with flat brim, slightly opened, placed on a small ring-like leg. Decorated with elongated triangles filled with stripes of reddish brown colour. The combination of this decoration features one triangle from the wreath downwards, and vice - versa. Good facture.




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