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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