Object

Accession No

1928.160.13

Description

Small handled cup of thin-walled grey ware. Flat base; biconical body; short neck; straightedged, slightly everted rim; handle broken off.

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

1928.160.13; TS76 [Excavation No.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

79mm x 70mm x 81mm Weight 0.04kg

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked on the underside of the base 'Toszeg 76 Stratum I 28.160' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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)
A white hand written label adhered to the underside of the base reads 'Toszeg 76 Stratum I. 28.160.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS76.
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

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: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Body of a handled cup, handle missing, fine walled, not well fired. Function: One handled cup. Pinfish grey, (Munsell colour 5yr.7/2).

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: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
This was reconstructed; one of the sherds has become detached. J.Somerville 21/11/2000.
Event Date 21/11/2000
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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)
Small handled cup of thin-walled grey ware. Flat base; biconical body; short neck; straightedged, slightly everted rim; handle broken off.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Esther Laver

FM:50342