Károlyi Mária: A korai rézkor emlékei Vas megyében (Szombathely, 1992)
According to our evaluation the find collection unearthed at the site near Kisunyom seems to be a continuation of the Sé settlement's late pottery. This was the idea on the basis of which we have connected this material with the end of the Lengyel culture's second phase. The leading pot types of the find collection of Kisunyom are the squat, two-handled cooking-pots with wide openings and sometimes with lines of small rounded imprints on the rims and sides, the hemisphere-shaped bowls with widened rims, the bowls with sharp profiles under the vertical rim-part (the first specimens of which have appeared at the settlement Sé), the bowls with horizontally cut and specially widened rims (a few similar pieces have also appeared in the material of Sé). It was the first site on which we had found biconic bowls with incurving rims, some pieces among which remind us of the classic Lasinja type bowl-form with the difference that the hanging knob ornament had not been applied. In the small find collection we have found surprisingly large number of sherds deriving from different bowls provided with bridged spouts, and this is particularly interesting because only a few similar specimens have been unearthed at the excavations carried out for instance in Austria (Falkenstein-Schanzboden) 32 . The Austrian researchers presume that the bowl-form is of Balkan origin, and really the high bowls provided with spout are characteristic bowl-forms appearing as early as the second phase of the Sopot culture 33 . However, we must mention that we have also unearthed sherds deriving from similar bowls at the Neolithic settlement of Kisunyom, which belong to the remains of the Linear Pottery culture; so these vessels have their own local history. The similar sherds found at Kisunyom remind us of the holed pedestals of the Sopot culture; the few pierced pedestal sherds unearthed in Western-Transdanubia derive from find collections of the late Lengyel culture 34 . We think, it is a characteristic feature of the age, that not a single bell-shaped pedestal sherd has been found among the pedestal sherds of Kisunyom, and not a single real high pedestal has been unearthed either. Among the pottery sherds there was only a few painted pieces, and all of them showed the traces of thick, continuous, red painting without motifs. We have already mentioned the single terra sigillata-like sherd of the find collection and its connection with the Moravian painted pottery. The vessels of similar character had shown up at the beginning of the Moravian painted pottery's second phase and lived on according to the observations of the local research. Four little groups of stray finds join the period of the find collection of Kisunyom: the little find collections of Szombathely-Olad, Csepreg, Jakfa and Balozsameggyes. The age's most characteristic pieces are the bowls provided 88
