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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