Object

Accession No

1928.160.3

Description

A cup of dark grey thin ware, with an everted rim, concave neck, rounded body and flat base. There is the base of a handle at the top of the body. Loss from the rim and neck.

Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg

Period

Early Bronze Age Middle Fuzesabony

Source

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

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1928.160.3; TS8b [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Thin Ware

Local Term

Measurements

63mm x 64mm x 69mm Weight 0.06kg

Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, TS8b.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Handwritten display label reads 'Toszeg, Stratum i. Bronze Age, Period iv' in black ink and '28.151, 157, 160, 236-7' added in blue ink.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked '8' on the base in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label affixed to the underside of the base reads 'Toszeg 8 Stratum I 28.160' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked on the underside of the base 'Toszeg 8 Stratum I 28.160' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Childe, V. Gordon. (1927). ‘A Bronze Age Village in Hungary: A Thousand Years of Prehistory’. The Illustrated London News, 24 September 1927, p. 498.
Event Date 1927
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Field collection)
Stratum I. Joint excavation by Ferenc Tompa, National Museum of Hungary and Louis C.G. Clarke, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1927. See archive (LL1/4/1 – LL1/4/3) for correspondence, notes, drawings, etc.
Event Date 1927
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Small one handled cup (handle missing) (incomplete), thin ware. Function: one handled cup. Dark grey, (Munsell colour 2.5y.N4/).
Event Date 1928
Author: maa

Context (References)
Schalk, Emily. (1981). ‘Die Frühbronzezeitliche Tellsiedlung bei Tószeg, Ostungarn, mit Fundmaterial aus der sammlung Groningen (Niederlande) und Cambridge (Grossbritannien)’. Dacia, vol. 25. pp. 63–129.
Event Date 1981
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (References)
Leighton, Mary and Stig Sorensen, Marie Louise. (2004). 'Breathing Life into the Archives: Reflections Upon Decontextualization and the Curatorial History of V.G. Childe and the Material from Toszeg'. European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 7. pp. 41-60. Fig. 1.

Event Date 2004
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A cup of dark grey thin ware, with an everted rim, concave neck, rounded body and flat base. There is the base of a handle at the top of the body. Loss from the rim and neck.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Emily Shorter

FM:50332