Accession No
1928.195.2
Description
One body sherd of light brown coarse fabric with light brown burnish; earliest Hatvan period. Decoration of incised or scratched curvilinear lines on exterior.
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
1928.195.2; MAA: 1928.195/Record 2; TS206a [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Body sherd of a vessel, thin ware Yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.5/4). Decoration: scratched spiral curvilinear decoration
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: '206'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 206. Strat. VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 188 [TS206].
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 body sherd of light brown coarse fabric with light brown burnish; earliest Hatvan period. Decoration of incised or scratched curvilinear lines on exterior.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:50471
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