Accession No

1928.209.10


Description

Sherd incorporating an everted rim, short concave neck, D-looped handle, narrow shoulders and straight sided body. Made up of a black fabric with reddish-brown exterior. Decoration on the exterior of an impressed textile pattern.


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

1928.209.10; TS391B [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS352.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Rim sherd and body of a vessel with a small handle, thin ware, fired red but black inside. Function: large storage vessel Reddish yellow, (Munsell colour 5yr.6/6). Decoration: neck and handle plain, body textile patterned
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: Alana Edgeworth


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)
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.
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)
Sherd incorporating an everted rim, short concave neck, D-looped handle, narrow shoulders and straight sided body. Made up of a black fabric with reddish-brown exterior. Decoration on the exterior of an impressed textile pattern.
Event Date 3/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth


FM:50560

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