Accession No
1928.189.5
Description
Part of an oval shaped dish of grey fabric with a flat base, short, flaring walls and a slightly everted rim. Possibly used as a ladle, fish dish, milk skimmer or crucible.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
Bronze Age Early Hatvan Earliest
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.189.5; TS199 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
72mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS199.
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter
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 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)
Part of an oval shaped dish, flat based some rim. Function: interpreted as ladles, fish dishes, milk skimmers or crucibles Greyish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.5/2)
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
Description (Physical description)
Part of an oval shaped dish of grey fabric with a flat base, short, flaring walls and a slightly everted rim. Possibly used as a ladle, fish dish, milk skimmer or crucible.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:50455
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