Accession No
1928.194.2
Description
One small lentoid shaped dish of dark grey fabric with yellow brown surface. Simple everted rim with one small protruding knob on long side; tapering body; obtuse angled flat base. Earliest Hatvan period.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
Early Bronze Age
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.194.2; MAA: 1928.194/Record 2; TS229 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
75mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 196 [TS229].
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '229 Toszeg. Strat. VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
Small oval shaped vessel with lug, thin ware, charred/black layer, thin ware. Function: interpreted as: ladle, fish dish, milk skimmer, crucible Yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.5/4) Decoration: a lug
Event Date
Author: maa
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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Field collection)
Stratum VIII. 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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
One small lentoid shaped dish of dark grey fabric with yellow brown surface. Simple everted rim with one small protruding knob on long side; tapering body; obtuse angled flat base. Earliest Hatvan period.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:50469
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