Object

Accession No

1928.174.8

Description

Incomplete handled pear shaped cup; thin ware with temper, fired unevenly, charred one side. Handle slightly flare at rim and raised above rim; base slightly concave. Rim and neck broken off and missing.

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

1928.174.8; TS83 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

110mm

Events

Description (Physical description)
Possily one handled pear shaped cup, thin ware with temper, fired unevenly, charred one side. Function: one handled cup Dark grey, (Munsell colour 7.5yr.N/3), pinkish grey (Munsell colour 7.5yr.6/2) Decoration: handle slightly flare at rim and raised above rim
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Label once attached to handle reads: '83.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed to object reads: 'Toszeg 83. Stratum IV. 28.174.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS83 in top right hand corner of card 87.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Two old display labels found with object, one reads: 'Series of sherds from Bronze Age site at Toszeg, Hungary, excavated by L.C.G. Clarke. Continued on the other side'; second label reads: 'Bronze Age sherds Toszeg, Hungary (continued from other side) Clarke collection & gift'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

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: Jodi Zhang

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: Jodi Zhang

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: Jodi Zhang

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: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete handled pear shaped cup; thin ware with temper, fired unevenly, charred one side. Handle slightly flare at rim and raised above rim; base slightly concave. Rim and neck broken off and missing.
Event Date 3/5/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang

FM:50403