Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '164' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 description: 'Fired piece of clay, pinched in at the centre, thin. Function: interpreted as an amulet. Light yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.6/4). Decoration: criss-cross scratched design on one side only.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS164.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 164. Stratum VI 28.182.' 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 VI. 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 1 description: 'Clay 'Idol' - i.e. a flat tablet of baked clay of figure-of-eight outline, 2.4" long and 1.8" broad about 3/8" thick; one surface undecorated, the other thickly scored with criss-cross lines.'
Event Date 1928
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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. 10 no. 122 and Fig. 32 no. 192.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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

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)
Amulet of fired clay in the form of a bilobed tablet decorated with incised cross-hatched lines. Thin and flat, with two oval-shaped lobes joined at the centre. Reverse side is undecorated. Light yellow-brown coloured surface and dark grey coloured core.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad