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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