Object

Accession No

1928.166 B.1

Description

One body sherd of very dark grey fabric with a burnished external surface. Uneven firing, with patches of grey, brown, and black. Decorated with a pattern of channels and dots, consisting of a rectangle with two outer borders of channels, and an internal border of small dots.

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

1928.166 B.1; TS53 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

22mm x 76mm x 104mm Weight 0.04kg

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 53. Stratum III 28.166 B.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object and sketch of decoration on catalogue card, no. TS53.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '53' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Stratum III. 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: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'Body sherd of pottery, thin ware, burnished. Function: amphorae type vessel. Very dark grey, mostly uneven firing (Munsell colour 2.5y.N3/). Decoration: channelled decoration with dots.'
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: 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

Context (Display)
On display in 'Creativity in the Bronze Age' (CinBA) exhibition, Maudslay Hall, 9/4/2013 - 6/7/2013.
Event Date 9/4/2013
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
One body sherd of very dark grey fabric with a burnished external surface. Uneven firing, with patches of grey, brown, and black. Decorated with a pattern of channels and dots, consisting of a rectangle with two outer borders of channels, and an internal border of small dots.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

FM:50376