Accession No
1928.214 B
Description
Fragment of ossified bone from a tortoise or turtle. Sub-rectangular in shape with a convex profile.
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
1928.214 B; TS412 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
A piece of tortoise or turtle skull.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Production / use)
Possibly used for food, tortoise shell, or just found there by chance.
Event Date
Author: Alana Edgeworth
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS412.
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: Alana Edgeworth
Context (Field collection)
Stratum XIV. 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
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Piece of Tortoise skeleton.'
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)
Fragment of ossified bone from a tortoise or turtle. Sub-rectangular in shape with a convex profile.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth
FM:50580
Images (Click to view full size):