A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1980/81-1.(Szeged, 1984)

Régészet - Horváth, Ferenc: Ada-type Artifacts of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Alföld

SITES AND PARALLELS 1. ADA — The Gergely Komlósi brick factory, Yugoslavia ( Vojvodina) A one-handled jar, brownish grey with black spots. The rim is slightly flared. The neck is cylindrical and slightly arched while the line of the shoulder is strongly marked. The shoulder itself is slightly convex with a flat base. The body has double truncated cone shape. The wide strap handle starts at the rim and attaches at the shoulder. The handle has a middle strut placed perpendicular to the body of the vessel. The rim is restored. Height: 13.9 cms. Szeged, Móra Ferenc Múzeum. Inventory number: 35/1906 d. It was the gift of the schoolmaster of Ada, Lajos Nagy, to the museum in 1906. The notes in Ferenc Mora's diary state that ever since 1889 about 200 graves with extended and contracted skeletons were destroyed in the brick-clay source of Gergely Komlósi's brick factory located on the site

16 (T.I : 1.). 2. RADANOVAC — "Crnava Zastava" co-operative Yugoslavia ( Vojvodina) A one handled jar. Grey with a slightly flared rim. The neck is arched and more constricted toward the top. The shoulder has a canelure running around it. The body has the shape of a flattened truncated cone, while the base is flat. The narrow strap handle begins at the rim and attaches at the shoulder and also has a perpendicular strut in its arch. Height: 18.9 cms. Subotica, Gradski Muzej. It comes from an inhumation grave discovered in 1955. Inventory number: A —1725.

17 (T. I: 2.). 3. RADANOVAC, Yugoslavia (Vojvodina) A one-handled mug. It is grey with black spots. The rim is slightly flared. Its short neck is cylindrical and the body has a double truncated cone shape. The handle begins at the rim, rises slightly above it and then attaches under the shoulder line. The rim is restored. Height: 5.2 cms. Subotica, Gradski Muzej. Inventory number: A — 1728. Gift. (T. II: l.).

18 4. SÖVÉNYHÁZA — Kőtörés, Hungary (Csongrád county) Jar fragment of brown grey colour. It has a strongly flattened double truncated cone form belly. The upper part is convex while the lower is slightly concave and straight close to the base. The shoulder line is sharp and emphasized by a canelura running around it. Height: 6.4 cms. Szeged, Móra Ferenc Múzeum. Inventory number: 10/1903/e. It was collected by János Reizner. The site may not be identified with the type site of Nagyrév culture. A three legged, incrusted Zók vessel (T. II: 3.) came from the same place. 5. ALGYŐ — Tiszapart, Hungary (Csongrád county) A one-handled mug, dark brown with black spots. It has a straight rim, cylinder shaped body and slightly arched neck. The handle is broken but originally it probably was higher than the rim where it began and attached lower down at the shoulder. The surface is burnished and the shoulder juts strongly horizontally. A gently incised line runs around the vessel under the shoulder. The belly of this artifact is semi-spherical. Height: 10.5 cms. The mug is owned by Mrs. József Kukk, Kigyó street 2, in Szeged-Algyő. It was found during the 1970 floods on the Algyő side of the Tisza bridge in a sand mine (T. II: 2.).

19 16 The Archaelogical and Historical Monument Notes of the Szeged City Museum, I (1883— 1906) 271. According to the records made by Ferenc Móra in 1908, about 200 extended and contracted skeletons in various burials had been plundered from 1889 to that time. The artifacts from these graves come from different periods, among which are Early Bronze Age pieces. See also : Tömörkény (1907) 370—371; Móra (1908) 363. 17 Grateful thanks are due to László Szekeres for access to material in the Subotica City Museum. The circumstances and place of discovery of mug number 3 are unknown. The provenience is probably identical to that of jar number 2. 18 RN. 10 (1903) f. 164. AÉ. (1903) 384. 18 The site was identified by Béla Kürti (Algyő, 1972, number 74) and we thank him here for this information See note 32, and T. VIII. 1. 10