Accession No

1928.160.20


Description

Part of a small cup of reddish yellow fabric with a partially burnished and charred external surface. Reconstructed from three sherds. Cup has a flat base with a shallow dimple in the centre, and a wide, squat, rounded body decorated with spiral ridges. Part of the body and the rim are missing.


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

1928.160.20; TS92 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

81mm x 40mm x 65mm Weight 0.04kg


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '92' in pencil in two places.
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


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS92.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the underside of the base reads 'Toszeg 92. 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)
Catalogue card description for 1928.160[.20]: 'Part of a small cup, fine walled, charring. Function: probably a one or two handled cup Reddish yellow, (Munsell colour 5yr.6/8). Decoration: Spirals on the body of the vessel.'

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. Fig. 21, no. 34.
Event Date 1981
Author: Emily Shorter


Description (Physical description)
Three sherds which have been glued together.
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, vol. 7. pp. 41-60. Fig. 1 (object on front right side).
Event Date 2004
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Part of a small cup of reddish yellow fabric with a partially burnished and charred external surface. Reconstructed from three sherds. Cup has a flat base with a shallow dimple in the centre, and a wide, squat, rounded body decorated with spiral ridges. Part of the body and the rim are missing.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50349

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