Accession No

1928.160.4


Description

A cup of grey coloured fine ware with an everted rim, straight neck, rounded shoulder and body with a slightly concave base; base of a loop handle at the shoulder. Loss from the rim and handle missing; partial reconstruction from sherds.


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

1928.160.4; TS9 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

74mm x 75mm x 78mm Weight 0.08kg


Events

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 on the base '8A' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked on each sherd of the base '9B' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked on the base 'Toszeg 9 Stratum I 28.160' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Other)
See photograph of object on card Number in top right hand corner of card 34
Event Date
Author: maa


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)
One handled cup, fine walled, restored. Function: one handled cup. Dark Grey, (Munsell colour 2.5y.N4/). Decoration: handled (but incomplete).
Event Date 1928
Author: maa


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, 7. Fig. 1.
Event Date 2004
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
A cup of grey coloured fine ware with an everted rim, straight neck, rounded shoulder and body with a slightly concave base; base of a loop handle at the shoulder. Loss from the rim and handle missing; partial reconstruction from sherds.
Event Date 30/4/2024
Author: Emily Shorter


FM:50333

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