Károlyi Mária: A korai rézkor emlékei Vas megyében (Szombathely, 1992)

collections of these few known sites virtually complete each other and show some chronological continuity. The first observation is that today the independent phase of white painted potteries is still missing in our territory (in County Vas) and it is also possible that further researches will not find it either. During periodization of the find collection of the settlement Se I came to the conclusion that the pottery of the last settlement period belonging to the Lengyel culture can be counted as a part of the Lengyel culture's second phase, and presumably of the second phase's beginning. It has been repeatedly pointed out that the local assemblages of the Lengyel culture are linked with the material of the Moravian painted pottery in many - we can say, in most - respects, and in an interesting way more closely than with the find collections of the neighbouring Burgenland and Lower-Austria. The thorough and extensive analysis of the Moravian painted pottery's second phase

31 has helped me to select that group of potteries from the find collection of Sé, which may represent a new phase in our area as well, and which has been found otherwise in the late layers. The new forms appearing in the pottery at that time are - squat and sharp profiled pots with funnelshaped necks (this will be the most frequent pottery type later), new bowl forms taking the place of the soft S-shaped bowls:bowls with vertical sidewalls under the rims and with sharp profiles, bowls with incurving, thickened or horizontally cut, wide rims (this will also be a frequent type later), the scalloped rims of the bowls, the podgy, thickened rims of the pots, flattened pots with pointed belly and incised ribs, the lines of small rounded imprints on the rims and sides of the pots, the vertical strap handles, colanders, in pot decorations the great oval knobs, the solid circular knobs with long necking, the roughly incised, mostly unsystematic linear decoration, the black striped paintings on clay of the vessels. There are no sherds of high pedestals found among the hollow-pedestalled vessels, and though the slightly bell-shaped bases appear in the find collection, they are always low. The clay of the pots becomes extremely rough, often worsened by large pebbles, but at the same time a black polished fine pottery type also appears in the material. It seems, that in the late phase of the local pottery painting white painting is also applied, however, always together with the yellow and red colours according to the unearthed sherds. Only the red, the black and the yellow colours are applied independently, unaccompanied by other colours on the sherds. According to the observations made during the excavations at Sé the pottery painting is gradually disappearing in the late layers and first the multi-coloured painting is vanishing, then the monochrome red painted pottery is disappearing. 87