Accession No

1932.151


Description

Hemispherical bowl on tall hollow pedestal foot of grey-brown ware. The bowl has four applied conical bosses; the foot is slightly splayed and perforated with eight roughly circular holes. Reconstructed with sherds and plaster.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tiszapolgár-Basatanya


Period

?Chalcolithic ?Bronze Age


Source

Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator and donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Buxton, Denis A. [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1932.151


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

253mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Hemispherical bowl on tall hollow pedestal foot of grey ware. The bowl has four applied conical bosses, the foot is perforated with eight roughly circular holes. Restored.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Related Documents)
Listed as '1. Pedestal bowl from the Grave No.1 of Tisza Polgar'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 'Tiszapolgar/ GT 1'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang


Context (Related Documents)
Old display label reads: 'Hungary'. Added in a later hand: '32.151-154. 32.155 A, B. Tiszapolgar E.B.A. Grave Group I'
Event Date
Author: Nora Josephine Klages-Miller


Context (Field collection)
From Grave No.1. Joint excavation by Ferenc Tompa, National Museum of Hungary and Louis C.G. Clarke and Denis Buxton, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, in 1929. See Photo Collection (P.47557-P.47564 and P.47571) for photographs of excavation.

Event Date 1929
Author: maa


Context (References)
Bognár-Kutzian, Ida. (1963). The Copper Age Cemetery of Tiszapolgár-Bastanya. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Event Date 1963
Author: Jodi Zhang


Context (Display)
Exhibited at Clarke Gallery, case 23, from 1984 to 2010.
Event Date 1984
Author: Jodi Zhang


Description (Physical description)
Hemispherical bowl on tall hollow pedestal foot of grey-brown ware. The bowl has four applied conical bosses; the foot is slightly splayed and perforated with eight roughly circular holes. Reconstructed with sherds and plaster.
Event Date 14/5/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang


FM:49349

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