Object

Accession No

1928.166 B.2

Description

One sherd of brown to very dark grey coloured fabric with a burnished external surface. Possibly from a bowl with a carinated body or inturned rim. External decoration: two conical bosses, separated by three, vertical, channelled lines, each with an impressed dot at the bottom; two, curved, channelled lines above each boss; two, curved, channelled lines on the base, bordered by small, radiating, incised lines.

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.2; TS56 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

20mm x 54mm x 70mm Weight 0.02kg

Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS56.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '56.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads '28.166 B. Stratum III Toszeg 56.' 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: 'Sherd of pottery with a possible base, fine walled, burnished. Function: possibly part of a bowl. Very dark grey, (Munsell colour 2.5y.N3/). Decoration: two lugs - vertical line and dot decoration.'
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. 33, no. 210.
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 sherd of brown to very dark grey coloured fabric with a burnished external surface. Possibly from a bowl with a carinated body or inturned rim. External decoration: two conical bosses, separated by three, vertical, channelled lines, each with an impressed dot at the bottom; two, curved, channelled lines above each boss; two, curved, channelled lines on the base, bordered by small, radiating, incised lines.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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