Accession No

1928.186.3


Description

A small jug of grey fabric with a wide mouth and everted rim, flared neck that tapers to a wide groove above the shoulder; the body is rounded and tapers to a flat base; there is a small handle connected between the neck and the shoulder. It is decorated between the rim and the shoulder with linear and geometric patterns filled with white.


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

1928.186.3; TS171 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

69mm x 68mm x 79mm Weight 0.06kg


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked '171' near the rim in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS171.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the body reads '28.186 Stratum VI TOSZEG 171' 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: Emily Shorter


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: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Small one handled cup with high flared neck, fine walled Dark grey, (Munsell colour 7.5yr.N4/). Decoration: perforations
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.
Event Date 1981
Author: Emily Shorter


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: Emily Shorter


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, 7.
Event Date 2004
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
A small jug of grey fabric with a wide mouth and everted rim, flared neck that tapers to a wide groove above the shoulder; the body is rounded and tapers to a flat base; there is a small handle connected between the neck and the shoulder. It is decorated between the rim and the shoulder with linear and geometric patterns filled with white.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Emily Shorter


FM:50441

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