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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