Accession No

1928.299


Description

Red ware pedestal base fragment. Round elevated foot ring with a portion of round body still attached. The inside of the bowl is polished and the outside is decorated with incised cross like motifs. Red/brown fabric.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Berettyóújfalu; Herpály


Period

?Late Neolithic ?Chalcolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1928.299


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Coarse Ware


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
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)
Fragment, consisting of part of footstand and of lower wall of bowl, of bowl with pedestal foot (type of 1928.259); coarse ware with reddish surface, decorated with two swastikas roughly scratched on the wall of the bowl
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: Aedan Jones


Description (Physical description)
Red ware pedestal base fragment. Round elevated foot ring with a portion of round body still attached. The inside of the bowl is polished and the outside is decorated with incised cross like motifs. Red/brown fabric.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Aedan Jones


FM:49158

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