Accession No
1928.189.3
Description
Part of an open, handled bowl of reddish brown fabric with smoothed surfaces. Reconstructed, with one detached rim sherd. Dark grey patches on body. Curvlinear channelled decoration on base: circular depression in centre of base, surrounded by a circular channel; five evenly spaced groups of concentric semicircles below the shoulder with dots between them, including four singular dots and three dots next to the handle. Bowl has a rounded base, a carinated shoulder, a flared collar, a wide, slightly downturned, everted rim, and an angular strap handle between the rim base and the shoulder.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
Early Bronze Age Earliest Hatvan
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.189.3; TS192 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
50mm x 145mm Weight 0.16kg
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
The reconstructed bowl is marked '192' in pencil twice, once each on two of the sherds. The separate sherd is also marked '193' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 192 Stratum VII 28.189.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS192.
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 VII. 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 description: 'Fragmented open wide rimmed bowl with small handle, thin ware Function: open bowl. Reddish brown, (Munsell colour 5yr.4/4). Decoration: on the base an arcaded curvilinear design and impressed circles.'
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. Fig. 24, no. 82. Also cf. Fig. 24, no. 84.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Description (Physical description)
One sherd has broken off but is still present.
Event Date 22/11/2000
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
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
Description (Physical description)
Part of an open, handled bowl of reddish brown fabric with smoothed surfaces. Reconstructed, with one detached rim sherd. Dark grey patches on body. Curvlinear channelled decoration on base: circular depression in centre of base, surrounded by a circular channel; five evenly spaced groups of concentric semicircles below the shoulder with dots between them, including four singular dots and three dots next to the handle. Bowl has a rounded base, a carinated shoulder, a flared collar, a wide, slightly downturned, everted rim, and an angular strap handle between the rim base and the shoulder.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
FM:50453
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