A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1982/83-1. (Szeged, 1985)

Régészet - Hegedűs Katalin: The Settlement of the Neolithic Szakálhát-Group at Csanytelek–Újhalastó

according the the point where gourd was transsected. The shapes of househols pottery are more or less independent of these organic prototypes and since their form was determined by their function, their shape is somewhat more abstract in comparison with the former. High-necked jars These jars usually have cylindrical necks, globular bodies and flat bases. Small pseudo-pierced lugs sit at the base of the neck (PI. 1:5). Larger jars are mostly well-fired and terracotta or red in colour with elbow-like handles (PI. 1:8). Cooking pots Cooking pots are mostly thick-walled with slightly (PI. V:l) or strongly inverted rim (PI. 1:10) and globular bodies. Their decoration is varied: bands decorated with finger indentions and ledge handles (PI. 1:10) occur alonsgide incised meandrical patterns (PI. V:l) Large ovoid cooking pots with short cylindrical necks were often coated with a chaff-slip after firing to increase the vessel's heat preserving capacity.

100 Bowls, cups, mugs The shape of cups is extremely varied: steep-walled carinated deep bowls (PI. 1:7) and large, steep-walled but shallow bowls (PI. VIII: 12—13) both occur. Thin-walled specimens — which can be assigned to the fine ware — with incised decoration occur less frequently; these have a cylindrical neck and convex shoulders (PI. 1:11, 16). Certain deep cups (PI. 1

:3, 9) and mugs (PI. 1

:2) can be assigned to a type termed 'Bombengefäss'. The size of this vessel which was named after its bomblike profile varies considerably. Vessels of special form and function On the basis of the borings in the base, the vessel shown in PI. 1:1 can perhaps be interpreted as a strainer. The vessel fragment shown in PI. IX: 6 was also either a strainer or a fireguard. A spouted vessel can be seen in PI. 1

:6. The vessel has a globular body and and inverted rim. Horizontally placed ledge handles can be seen immediately below the carination line with the cylindrical spout taking the place of the fourth ledge. This quadripartite arrangement of plastic ornaments is a general feature of both vessels decorated with an incised pattern (four horizontally placed interlocking S-spirals) and coarse pots (four ledge handles alternating with four ribs with finger indentions). A quintuple arrangement can only be observed in one case (Fig. 16). It would appear that in this latter case the potter was faced with the following pro100 This vessel type is only represented by fragments in the assemblage. 38