Object

Accession No

1928.161.5

Description

One rim sherd of grey to dark grey coloured fabric with a burnished external surface. Sherd is from an open bowl or the collar of a vessel. Thin, everted rim with a rounded edge. Row of fingernail impressions on neck, infilled with lime. Walls gradually thicken towards the base of the neck, which has a horizontal incised line.

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

1928.161.5; TS41b [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime

Local Term

Measurements

16mm x 64mm x 73mm Weight 0.06kg

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '41.' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS41(b).
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 41. Stratum II. 28.161.' 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 II. 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: 'Rim sherd, thick ware, burnished. Function: open bowl or the collar part of a vessel Grey (Munsell colour 2.5yr.N5/). Decoration: 'stabbed' decoration infilled with white.'
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. 27, no. 123.
Event Date 1981
Author: Emily Shorter

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: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
One rim sherd of grey to dark grey coloured fabric with a burnished external surface. Sherd is from an open bowl or the collar of a vessel. Thin, everted rim with a rounded edge. Row of fingernail impressions on neck, infilled with lime. Walls gradually thicken towards the base of the neck, which has a horizontal incised line.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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