Object

Accession No

1928.209.6

Description

One sherd comprising part of the body and base from a vessel of coarse, heavy, yellowish brown fabric. The vessel has a small, circular, thickened base and a slightly rounded body with thick walls, decorated externally with multiple oblique scratches.

Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg

Period

Early Bronze Age Earliest Nagyrev

Source

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

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1928.209.6; TS381 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

60mm x 76mm Weight 0.12kg

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 381. Strat: XIII. 28.209.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A small white hand written label adhered to the object reads '381' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS381.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Stratum XIII. 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

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: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'Part of a body and base of a pear shaped vessel, thin ware, coarse. Function: pottery vessel. Yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.5/4). Decoration: uneven scratched decoration, slightly raised base.'
Event Date 1928
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register description for 1928.209[.1-13]: 'Fragmentary pot and sherds.'
Event Date 1928
Author: Alana Edgeworth

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. 28, no. 138.
Event Date 1981
Author: Alana Edgeworth

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: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
One sherd comprising part of the body and base from a vessel of coarse, heavy, yellowish brown fabric. The vessel has a small, circular, thickened base and a slightly rounded body with thick walls, decorated externally with multiple oblique scratches.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

FM:50556