APC Image: AK 1105: Prehistoric storage jars sherds.Pithoi pieces decorated with simple stamped and incised patterns. The commonest are variations of the rope pattern, made with a plastic horizontal band which has slanting impressions of a finger (thumb) or of some blunt instrument. Sometimes the effect produced is that of the twisted strands of the rope. Other pieces show the plastic band cut slantwise with broad thrusts, or again with strokes finely cut by a sharp instrument. A plastic wavy line is another decorative device. The patterns are not elaborate, although one represents a leaf pattern.