Accession No

1928.196.4


Description

One rim sherd from an open bowl or jar of thin, reddish brown coloured fabric with burnished surfaces. Wide, everted rim with a squared edge, decorated below with fine ridges and horizontal grooves that are 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

1928.196.4; TS215 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime


Local Term


Measurements

11mm x 25mm x 38mm Weight 0.01kg


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 215. Strat: VIII 28.196.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS215.
Event Date
Author: maa


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 a ?carinated vessel, fine walled. Function: an open bowl. Reddish brown, (Munsell colour 5yr.5/4). Decoration: plain neck, encrusted linear decoration with white infill.'
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.
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 rim sherd from an open bowl or jar of thin, reddish brown coloured fabric with burnished surfaces. Wide, everted rim with a squared edge, decorated below with fine ridges and horizontal grooves that are infilled with lime.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50497

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