Accession No

1928.233


Description

One base sherd from a pedestal dish of orange-brown to dark grey coloured fabric with a smoothed external surface. Pedestal has a square base and rectangular sides, each with a deep rectangular indentation. Dish has a slightly sagging base.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg


Period

Early Bronze Age I Earliest Nagyrev


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1928.233; TS509 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

60mm x 37mm x 55mm Weight 0.04kg


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '509.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS509.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 509. Stratum XVII. 28.233.' in black 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 XVII. 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: 'Square based pedestal with sherd of a flat dish attached, thin ware. Function: pedestal dish. Very dark greyish, (Munsell colour 10yr.3/2). Decoration: base decorated with 'press in' on all four sides.'
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. 28, no. 145.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


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)
One base sherd from a pedestal dish of orange-brown to dark grey coloured fabric with a smoothed external surface. Pedestal has a square base and rectangular sides, each with a deep rectangular indentation. Dish has a slightly sagging base.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:50641

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