Accession No

1928.186.8


Description

Part of a handled cup of reddish yellow ware with thin walls and a highly burnished surface. Reconstructed. Squat, bulbous body with a rounded carination; tall, flared neck; straight rim; vertical strap handle between the rim and the base of the neck. Part of the body and the whole of the base are missing.


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

1928.186.8; TS185 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

77mm x 80mm x 91mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS185.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked 'TOSZEG 185 Strat: VI 28.186' in black ink.
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: 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


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1928.186.8: 'Incomplete one handled high necked cup (restored), fine walled. Function: one handled cup. Reddish yellow, (Munsell colour 5yr.6/8). Decoration: burnished, handle.'
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: 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. Fig. 1 (third object from the right, back row).
Event Date 2004
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Part of a handled cup of reddish yellow ware with thin walls and a highly burnished surface. Reconstructed. Squat, bulbous body with a rounded carination; tall, flared neck; straight rim; vertical strap handle between the rim and the base of the neck. Part of the body and the whole of the base are missing.
Event Date 30/4/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50446

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