Object

Accession No

1928.160.24

Description

Jug of thin-walled red ware, reconstructed from 10 sherds with a further eight loose sherds. Flat base; round body; slightly flaring rim; flattened loop handle from rim to body. Decorated with three parallel grooves around the top of the body, below the neck, and impressed boss motifs.

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

1928.160.24; TS102 [Excavation No.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

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. TS102.
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: Esther Laver

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)
Six sherds and incomplete handled jug, thin ware, oxidised firing, restored. Function: one handled jug. Red, (Munsell colour 2.5yr.5/8). Decoration: lugs and linear horizontal decoration around handle base, vertical decoration under the handle; handle flared and raised above rim.
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)
Jug has been reconstructed from sherds. There are 8 loose sherds and all the sherds are from this same vessel.
Event Date 21/11/2000
Author: Esther Laver

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.
Event Date 2004
Author: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Jug of thin-walled red ware, reconstructed from 10 sherds with a further eight loose sherds. Flat base; round body; slightly flaring rim; flattened loop handle from rim to body. Decorated with three parallel grooves around the top of the body, below the neck, and impressed boss motifs.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Esther Laver

FM:50353