Accession No

1928.196.6


Description

Two refitting sherds from a wide, shallow bowl of reddish brown fabric with burnished and decorated surfaces. Reconstructed. External incised line decoration, infilled with lime, consists of: a circle in the centre of the base, surrounded by small radiating lines; downward-pointing triangles, filled with horizontal lines, below the shoulder; a horizontal line below the rim. Bowl has a wide, concave base, a squat, rounded body, and an everted rim.


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

1928.196.6; MAA: 1928.193 [incorrect number]; TS234 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Lime


Local Term


Measurements

127mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to one of the sherds reads '28.196. Stratum VIII Toszeg 234.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS234.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Labels & Markings)
One sherd has been incorrectly marked '1928.193' in white 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: maa


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'Sherds of a bowl (restored), thin ware. Function: bowl. Reddish brown, (Munsell colour 5yr.4/3). Decoration: base decorated with zig zag filled in with horizontal lines and white infill, scratched decoration radiating from the base centre.'

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. Fig. 24, no. 87.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Now in two pieces.
Event Date 23/11/2000
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


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)
Two refitting sherds from a wide, shallow bowl of reddish brown fabric with burnished and decorated surfaces. Reconstructed. External incised line decoration, infilled with lime, consists of: a circle in the centre of the base, surrounded by small radiating lines; downward-pointing triangles, filled with horizontal lines, below the shoulder; a horizontal line below the rim. Bowl has a wide, concave base, a squat, rounded body, and an everted rim.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50499

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