Accession No

1928.160.10


Description

Miniature handled cup of yellow to grey fabric with thin walls and a partially burnished surface. Reconstructed. Part of the rim edge and most of the handle are missing. Flat base; squat, rounded body; shoulder decorated with three rounded bosses separated by multiple vertical incised lines; tall, upright neck; everted rim; vertical strap handle between the rim and shoulder.


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

1928.160.10; TS17 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

63mm x 53mm x 69mm Weight 0.04kg


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


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS17.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked a very faint ?'119' in pencil on the side.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the base reads 'Toszeg 17. Stratum I. 28.160.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


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: maa


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: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1968.160.10: 'Nearly complete small cup - handled, fine walled, restored. Function: typical Fuzesabony one handled cup. Grey, (Munsell colour 5yr.5/1). Decoration: three lugs and incised decoration around the middle.'
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: Lizzy Peneycad


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 (object on left side, second row).
Event Date 2004
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Miniature handled cup of yellow to grey fabric with thin walls and a partially burnished surface. Reconstructed. Part of the rim edge and most of the handle are missing. Flat base; squat, rounded body; shoulder decorated with three rounded bosses separated by multiple vertical incised lines; tall, upright neck; everted rim; vertical strap handle between the rim and shoulder.
Event Date 30/4/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50339

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