Object

Accession No

1928.196.5

Description

One rim sherd of fine micaceous dark grey fabric with light brown burnish, possibly from a small cup; earliest Hatvan period. Simple slightly everted rim; exterior decoration of three parallel vertically scratched horizontal bands or grooves and one incised horizontal zigzag line, all infilled with white lime.

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

1928.196.5; MAA: 1928.196/Record 5; TS233 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime

Local Term

Measurements

35mm

Events

Description (Physical description)
Rim sherd of pottery, fine walled, burnished. Function: open bowl or small cup Dark grey, (Munsell colour 10yr.4/1). Decoration: scratched vertical decoration with white infill, band of zig zag infilled
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 233. Strat: VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink reading: '233'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 199 [TS233].
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 rim sherd of fine micaceous dark grey fabric with light brown burnish, possibly from a small cup; earliest Hatvan period. Simple slightly everted rim; exterior decoration of three parallel vertically scratched horizontal bands or grooves and one incised horizontal zigzag line, all infilled with white lime.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

FM:50498