A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 3. - 1960 (Nyíregyháza, 1963)

Makkay János: Strange Prehistoric Finds in the Jósa András Museum

STRANGE PREHISTORIC FINDS IN THE JÓSA ANDRÁS MUSEUM The finds: 1. Oval earthenware plate divided in two by a wall, which had many feet. Through its bottom there are smoothed-in channels forcing their way through the dividing wall and holding off at the end of the plate. Provenance: Rakamaz, age: neolithic, the lineornamented pottery. (Table I., II. 6., IV. 2., VIII. 1—3.) 2. Clay bowl in the shape of a drinking horn with two piercings below its Tim. A find of neolithic age: its then owner may have held red paint in it and worn it perhaps on his belt. Provenance: Rakamaz (Table II. 2.). 3. A small pot with wing-shaped armes and etchedin decoration on them as well as its side. Its inside is not hollow, there isn't but a strait gap in it. Provenance: Rakamaz (Table II. 1.). 4. A little clay disk with scratches of a bird on the one and of an elephant on the other side. It was bored through, i. e. hangable. Provenance: Rakamaz. (Table III. 1—2.) 5. A little clay disk likewise from Rakamaz. Made of fine clay. Its decoration is composed of circular scraped-in lines and a series of pressed-in round dents parallel with the lines. In the middle there is a dent deeper and larger than the other ones. The other side of the disk is closely decorated with pectinated impressions. Its diameter: 5—7 cm, thickness: 1,2 cm. (Table III. 3—4.) 6. Stone axe decorated with bulging surfaces and groovings on them from the Early Bronze Age. Provenance: the churchyard from Tiszaeszlár. (Table III. 6—8.) 7. Miniature pots from Tiszapolgár-Csőszhalom: relics of the painted pottery of the late neolithic period. Size of them: diameters between 1—6 cm. (Table VI. 6—10. and VII. 1—5.) 8. Clay vessel, standing on low feet, and from the two sides are armlike, Jiollow, closed pipes coming out. Its age and purpose unknown. Provenance: Tiszapolgár. Maybe it's of neolithic origine. Its length: 15,5 cm. (Table II. 5., VII. 16—17.) 9. Fragments of ducklike vessels of the Early Bronze Age from the county Szabolcs (Table IV. 7.) and from Füzesabony (Table IV. 6.). 10. Net-sinkers of strange form. (Table IV. 3., IV. 1., VII. 8.). 11. Fragment of a flat idol picturing a female bust. The head and arms of it are broken off. Its age: that of the line-ornamented pottery. From the county Szabolcs. (Table V. 7.) 12. Spindle-shaped idol picturing a woman. Its length: 7,2 cm. Likewise from the county Szabolcs. (Table III. 5.) 13. A small clay button bored-through in four places. Diameter: 2,8 cm. Provenance: Rakamaz. (V. t. 2.) 14. Clay horns of cattle. Their length: 4—7 cm. They can't be parts of clay rings because they don't curve much so and their ends are smoothed. Provenance: Tisza4lob-Ókenéz. Age: that of the lineornamented pottery. (Table III. 9—12.) 15. A clay thing with the form of a plate. It may have been either a breastplate or a pot-lid. (Table V. 5.) 16. A miniature clay axe imitating a stone axe. Length: 6 cm. From an unknown provenance in the county Szabolcs. (Table V. 3.) From the late neolithic age. 17. A ,,pelta"-like clay plate that may have been a net-sinker too, yet more a breast-plate. Provenance: Tiszanagyfalu. It is perhaps neolithic. (Table V. 8.) 18. A handled bronze amulet of double axe form. Length: 4,5 cm. Of the late Bronze Age. A find of county Szabolcs. (Table V. 1.) 19. One flat foot of the bench of a neolithic sitting statuette or a man-like vessel. Length: 7,3 cm. Found in the county Szabolcs. (Table V. 6.) 20. Feets of neolithic man-like sculptures — from Kenézlő (Table VI. 4.), Paszab (Table V. 4.), and Tiszapolgár-Csőszhalom (Table VI. 1—3., 5.). 21. Fragment of a conical pot-lid decorated with animal form, i. e. figure of dog: the decoration, the animal body in standing posture, was the handle of the toil. Provenance: Tiszadob-Borzik. Age: the period of the Late Neolithic or of the Bodrogkeresztur-culture. (Table II. 3.) 22. Night-light shaped to animal body. It represents a sheep or a pig. Provenance: Tiszapolgár-Csőszhalom. Age: late neolithic. (Table II. 4.) 23