Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia . Fig. 92. Bone implements ; a-g from Tsangli, //-/// from Tsanl Maghula (scale 9 : 10). Tsani, Miscellaneous Objects 149 prominent and large. To the same stratum also belong a hollow foot, whichmay be part of an anthropomorphic vase, and a very small leg. The lower [)art of a standing steatopygous female figure like AS, PI. 32. 3,was found on the surface of the south slope of the mound. This is polished,but unpainted : however, it probably belong
Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia . Fig. 92. Bone implements ; a-g from Tsangli, //-/// from Tsanl Maghula (scale 9 : 10). Tsani, Miscellaneous Objects 149 prominent and large. To the same stratum also belong a hollow foot, whichmay be part of an anthropomorphic vase, and a very small leg. The lower [)art of a standing steatopygous female figure like AS, PI. 32. 3,was found on the surface of the south slope of the mound. This is polished,but unpainted : however, it probably belongs to the period of painted pottery,and most likely to the First Period. The only other figurine is a broken fragment oi no value from IV. Miscellaneous Objects. Bone and /loni. Pins and awls, twelve, all except one from I 1\.Fig. 92 h-k. Gouges, four from IV, and one from I, Fig. 92 /, ?;/. Bored Hammer, one burnt specimen was found in \ I together withbarley. This confirms Tsundas suggestion that deer horn hammers wereused for thrashing corn, etc., compare also the finds from House Q atRakhmani, and Irc;. 93. Impression of stone from Tsani Magliula iscale i : i). Slonc. In II was found the remarkable stone button seal shown inFig. 93. On the upper side it has a bored knob in the centre. Thepattern recalls those on the terracotta seals from Sesklo (AS, pp. 340 ff.,Figs. 270 ff.) and like them belongs to the First Period. In VHI a small white stone of a flat conoid shape with two holes boredin the rim was found, cf A-S, PI. 43. 23. Tcn-a-cotta. Whorls, eight flat, eight Hat conical, four high conical,and light double conoid wt;re found. The high conical and double conoidwhorls were common in \ \1I1, and the others in 1 \ . Spools, four solitl with spla\icl ends, and one bored vertically ; all inearly strata. tylinders, six, bored vertically. Tall, oblong weights, live, bored horizontally at the top. from I \III. Anchor ornament, one, cf. Fig. 140/, p. 198. ihe
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