Petres Éva, F.: Neolithic graves at Bicske - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 9. (Székesfehérvár, 1959)
Examining the shape of the vessels recovered from the tombs, the bulging, necked vessel of tomb 4 is found to be of a shape occuring also in the earlier culture of line decorated pottery.14 It occurs also in the later culture of line decorated pottery.15 The pear-shaped vessel of the Nagytétény tomb, wich is the closest analogy of our vessel recovered in Bicske, is decorated with the Zseliz ornament."1 The sharp, upright, horizontally bored knobby hendles are also similar, with the difference, however, that instead of the scraped Zseliz ornament, the neck of the Bicske vessel was decorated with red paint. The double truncated cone, this most frequent shape of the Bicske tombs, has also its equivalent in the Nagytétény tomb.17 On the plate of shapes published by F. Tompa this type figures as a from belonging to the Tisza cultureSince then, with the help of the integrate material found on find spot VUIth of Öszentiván, it has been separeted from the forms prevailing in the Tisza culture and classified in the Bánát culture.”1 On the VUIth archeological find spot of Ószentiván this shape of vessel is found in large numbers even in fragments, and is decorated with the same easily erased red paint as the Bicske fragment.“ In Bicske it is also frequent among the material of the settlement. On the fragments recovered here the 2 to 3 cm wide red paint below the brim has been preserved than on the vessels found in the tombs. Taking the above into consideration, in his latest interpretation of the Nagytétény tomb21 J. Banner classified the double truncated cone vessel with the Bánát culture.TM The tripodal vessel of Tomb 1. is essentially but a legged variety of this double truncated cone dish. Bottom parts of vessels imitating human feet are found also in the Bükk cultureThe type of vessels on legs is known in the Körös culture too, where four feet are the most frequent, but three or more than four feet also occur. The upper parts are hemispheric.24 The vessel standing on small knobby feet appears also in the aeneolithic material.25 A tubular legged variety of the double truncated cone dish exists in the Bánát culture too.26 The Bicske piece exhibits this upper part shaped as a double truncated cone so frequent in the Bánát culture, with the variance, however, that it is standing on knob feet instead of a tubular leg. On the other hand, fragments recalling the cylindrical bottom tube used in the Bánát culture are to be found in the material of the settlement. Summing up the examination of the vessels we have to state that the material of the tombs is not homogeneous. Among the analogous forms of vessels in the Nagytétény tomb vessels belonging to the 7
