Museum of: Budapest
    Name of the artefact: Pot
   
Medium sized, round flanked pot.
                                 
 
WHERE IS IT AND MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
  
STATE
 
Department:
Department of Prehistoric and Migration Period
Preservation:
 Very good
Inventory number:
BTM GY/408
Restauration:
 Restored
Name of the artefact:
Pot
Completeness:
 Complete
Object type:
Vessel/Anphora
  
Material:
Clay
Methof of manufacture:
Hand made
Decoration type:
Incision
Distinctive mark:
-
DIMENSIONS
  
PERIOD OF USE
Length (mm):
-
Epoque:
Neolithic Age
Heigth (mm):
185
Culture:
Transdanubian Linear Pottery Culture
Diameter (mm):
100
Period:
Middle Neolithic Age
Width (mm):
150
Face:
Notenkopf-design phase
Thickness (mm):
-
Absolute chronology:
5th mil. BC
Weight (g):
-
DISCOVERY
Date:
2003
Country:
Hungary
District:
Pest county
Town hall affiliation:
Biatorbágy
Village:
-
Discovery findspot:
Biatorbágy-Hosszúrétek
Condition of discovery:
Archaeological excavation
Discovery type:
Pit
 
ANALYSES – DETERMINATIONS
 
FILLED IN BY
Type:
-
Name:
László András Horváth
Laboratory:
-
Institution:
Budapest History Museum
No./Code:
-
Date:
20/10/2005
 
DEEPENINGS

Morphology of the object:
Medium sized, round flanked pot. Its neck is short and slightly outward curving. Its rim is straight. The pot has three regularly placed, vertical standing, pierced suspension handles on its shoulders.

Decoration:
A wide band made up of flat incised line-patterns running from the neck to almost the bottom of the vessel. A similarly executed zigzag pattern can be seen on the lower part of the neck.

Inscription:
-

Analogies:
Analogies can be found in Bedburg-Garsdorf (Germany). References: W. Piepers: Bandkeramische Siedlungsstelle bei Bedburg-Garsdorf. In: Beuträge zur Urgeschichte des Rheinlandes I. Bonn. 1974, Abb. 9, 25.

Interpretation:
The vessel is different from the other similar objects of the Transdanubian Linear Pottery Culture primarily because of its decoration. The parallel, deeply incised line running along the whole length of the vessel is as unusual feature in the pottery ware of this culture. The same can be said of the zigzag pattern below the neck. Knowing the outstanding importance of symbols in prehistoric societies, it can be suspected that this vessel had a special function, which unfortunately cannot be discerned in more detail based on the data available to us today.
Bibliography:
Reményi, L.– Tóth A.: Őskori telepek, római kori árokrendszer, avar sírok Biatorbágy-Hosszúrétek lelőhelyen (Prehistoric settlements, a ditch system from the Roman period, Avar graves at the site of Biatorbágy-Hosszúrétek). In: Aquincum. Excavations and rescue work at the Aquincum Museum in 2003. Bp. 2004. 160-167; Horváth, L. A. – Reményi L. – Tóth A.: Régészeti kutatások az M0 autóút bővítése kapcsán (Archaeological excavations preceding the widening of highway M0. In: Régészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2003 (Archaeological Investigations in Hungary 2003) Budapest 2004.