Accession No

1928.195.18


Description

One small bowl, reconstructed from sherds, of fine micaceous grey fabric with fine grey burnish; earliest Hatvan period. Rim completely broken off and missing; deep horizontal groove at top of body; rounded body; obtuse angled concave base with scratched decoration of curvilinear lines.


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

1928.195.18; MAA: 1928.195/Record 18; TS237a [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

80mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 237. Stratum VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: '237'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: 'Tószeg 237. VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Base/part of body of a bowl or cup (restored), fine walled, burnished. Function: bowl or cup Brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.5/3) Decoration: scratched decoration on part of the base
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 192 [TS237].
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)
One small bowl, reconstructed from sherds, of fine micaceous grey fabric with fine grey burnish; earliest Hatvan period. Rim completely broken off and missing; deep horizontal groove at top of body; rounded body; obtuse angled concave base with scratched decoration of curvilinear lines.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:50487

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