Accession No
1928.177.6
Description
One base sherd from a wide, shallow, open bowl of thick, yellowish brown to very dark grey coloured fabric. External surface is highly burnished and decorated with a curvilinear channelled design comprising groups of four concentric semicircles around the edge, separated by two impressed dots. Sherd is semicircular and convex.
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
1928.177.6; TS157b [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
77mm x 15mm x 151mm Weight 0.12kg
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Object is marked '157' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS157(b).
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 157. Stratum V 28.177.' 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: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (Field collection)
Stratum V. 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
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card decription: 'Base sherd of a bowl, thick ware, burnished. Function: an open bowl. Very dark grey, (Munsell colour 10yr.3/1). Decoration: curvilinear channelled design with impressed dots (typical Fuzesabony).'
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. 24, no. 85.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Description (Physical description)
The decoration is impressed semi-circles and dots.
Event Date 22/11/2000
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
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: Lizzy Peneycad
Description (Physical description)
One base sherd from a wide, shallow, open bowl of thick, yellowish brown to very dark grey coloured fabric. External surface is highly burnished and decorated with a curvilinear channelled design comprising groups of four concentric semicircles around the edge, separated by two impressed dots. Sherd is semicircular and convex.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
FM:50423
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