Description (Labels & Markings)
The torn remains of a white hand written label adhered to the object read 'Toszeg 161 [missing]' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 description: 'Fired clay representation of an animal with pointed nose and pinched ears. Function: figurine, possibly of a dog. Light yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 2.5y.6/4).'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS161b.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '161' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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

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

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 description: 'Clay figurine of a four-footed animal with long pointed nose.'
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. 124 and Fig. 32 no. 187.
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)
A fired clay figurine of a quadrupedal animal, possibly a dog. The animal has: a long, pointed nose; pinched, oval-shaped ears; a short, thick neck; a long, rounded body; four short legs; a small thickened tail. Yellowish brown to dark grey in colour.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad