Object

Accession No

1928.167.1

Description

One rim sherd from an open bowl of thin, brown to very dark grey coloured fabric with burnished surfaces. External decoration: a group of vertical incised lines along the rim edge; three ridges and four horizontal grooves, infilled with lime, below the rim; a row of shallow, oblique ridges and incised lines; groups of four vertical scratches below the widest part of the body. Wide, flat, everted rim and a rounded body with a slight carination in the centre.

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

1928.167.1; TS114 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime

Local Term

Measurements

21mm x 52mm x 84mm Weight 0.02kg

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 'TOSZEG 114 Stratum IV 28.167.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS114.
Event Date
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

Context (Field collection)
Stratum IV. 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 of open bowl, thin walled, burnished. Function: open bowl. Very dark grey, (Munsell colour 10yr.3/1). Decoration: rim edge decorated, body zoned horizontal lines with white infill - plain vertical scratched 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. 27, no. 122.
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 from an open bowl of thin, brown to very dark grey coloured fabric with burnished surfaces. External decoration: a group of vertical incised lines along the rim edge; three ridges and four horizontal grooves, infilled with lime, below the rim; a row of shallow, oblique ridges and incised lines; groups of four vertical scratches below the widest part of the body. Wide, flat, everted rim and a rounded body with a slight carination in the centre.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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