Accession No
1928.195.23
Description
One body sherd with handle of a large vessel; coarse dark grey fabric with yellowish red discolouration on exterior and grey burnish on interior; earliest Hatvan period. Wide vertically looped strap handle with decoration of an irregular textile patterning.
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
1928.195.23; MAA: 1928.195/Record 23; TS265a [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
114mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: '26[rest of label torn off]'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: 'Tószeg 265. Stratum VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 2[rest of label torn off]'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
handle sherd of a large vessel, coarse ware Yellowish red, (Munsell colour 5yr.5/6). Decoration: irregular textile patterning
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 219 [TS265].
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 body sherd with handle of a large vessel; coarse dark grey fabric with yellowish red discolouration on exterior and grey burnish on interior; earliest Hatvan period. Wide vertically looped strap handle with decoration of an irregular textile patterning.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:50492
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