Museum of: Budapest
    Name of the artefact: Miniature jar
   
Round flanked small jar
                                 
 
WHERE IS IT AND MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
  
STATE
 
Department:
Department of Prehistoric and Migration Period
Preservation:
 Very good
Inventory number:
BTM GY/523
Restauration:
 Restored
Name of the artefact:
Miniature jar
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):
64
Culture:
Transdanubian Linear Pottery Culture
Diameter (mm):
22
Period:
Middle Neolithic Age
Width (mm):
48
Face:
Notenkopf-design phase
Thickness (mm):
-
Absolute chronology:
1st half 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:
2005
 
DEEPENINGS

Morphology of the object:
Round flanked small jar. Its neck is elongated, the rim slightly turning outwards. On the flank of the vessel are three, regularly placed, slightly upward turning, vertically pierced suspension handles.

Decoration:
On the lower half of the jar’s flank a wide band of V-shaped patterns were incised flatly into the surface, connected together by similarly executed horizontal lines on the lower sides of the shoulders. Two parallel lines are incised on the neck.

Inscription:
-

Analogies:
-

Interpretation:
Based on the form and decoration of the pottery it can be deduced that it fulfilled a special function different from everyday use. Its small volume and the unusually narrow neck-diameter points to its application in storing some unknown type of liquid, perfume, or other volatile. Fitting to this function the small jar probably once had a stopper which is now lost. The small handles could have been used to hang up the vessel with a thin cord.
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.