Accession No

1928.277.1


Description

Base sherd from a vessel with pedestal foot, made up of a dark grey fabric with buff reddish-brown surface.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Berettyóújfalu; Herpály


Period

Neolithic


Source

National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Márton, Lajos [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1928.277.1


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

104mm x 76mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Labels with objects from this site read "Copper Age. From the large mound at Herpaly, nr. Berettyoujtalu, East Hungary" and "Later Neolithic from Herpaly, East Hungary. Joint excavations 1927 of Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum (sic) Budapest, and this Musuem."
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1928.277[.1-21]: 'Numerous sherds of large vessels of coarse wares, red and grey with surfaces unevenly coloured owing to bad firing; some sherds have small lugs, a few have handles; one has a handle flanked by a minute boss, one sherd, a base, has a hollow footstand decorated with nicks round its edge etc.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Joint excavation by Ferenc Tompa and Lajos Márton, National Museum of Hungary and Louis C.G. Clarke, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1927. See archive (LL1/4/1) for correspondence, notes, etc.
Event Date 1927
Author: Alana Edgeworth


Description (Physical description)
Base sherd from a vessel with pedestal foot, made up of a dark grey fabric with buff reddish-brown surface.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth


FM:49138

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