Object

Accession No

1928.195.16

Description

Body sherd of dark grey fabric with reddish brown burnish on exterior; earliest Hatvan period. Parts represent transition from neck to shoulder; horizontal ridge at base of neck; decoration of incised bands of double zigzag lines. Reconstructed from three sherds.

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

1928.195.16; MAA: 1928.195/Record 16; TS226 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

152mm

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: '226'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 226. Stratum VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Body sherd of bowl shaped vessel, thick ware, black on the inside (restored) Reddish brown, (Munsell colour 5yr.4/3). Decoration: a ridge running below the neck, linear bands of double zig zag
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 187 [TS226].
Event Date
Author: maa

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)
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 (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)
Body sherd of dark grey fabric with reddish brown burnish on exterior; earliest Hatvan period. Parts represent transition from neck to shoulder; horizontal ridge at base of neck; decoration of incised bands of double zigzag lines. Reconstructed from three sherds.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

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