Object

Accession No

1928.196.3

Description

One sherd of grey fabric with a partially burnished and decorated external surface. Sherd is from just below the rim of the vessel. Decoration consists of a curved black band, highly burnished, and shallow horizontal ridges marked with multiple vertical scratches, infilled with lime.

Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg

Period

Early Bronze Age Earliest Hatvan

Source

National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1928.196.3; TS207 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime

Local Term

Measurements

15mm x 65mm x 70mm Weight 0.04kg

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '207' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS207.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 207 Strat: VIII 28.196.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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: Lizzy Peneycad

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: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'Rim sherd of pottery, thin ware Grey, (Munsell colour 10yr.5/1) Decoration: burnished, scratched vertical decoration with infill of white.'
Event Date 1928
Author: maa

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. cf. Fig. 27, no. 124.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
One sherd of grey fabric with a partially burnished and decorated external surface. Sherd is from just below the rim of the vessel. Decoration consists of a curved black band, highly burnished, and shallow horizontal ridges marked with multiple vertical scratches, infilled with lime.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

FM:50496