Marta, Liviu (szerk.): Satu Mare. Studii şi comunicări. Seria arheologie 26/1. (2010)

Nagy József-Gábor - Körösfői Zsolt: Early Iron Age Storage Pit at Porumbenii Mari-Várfele (Harghita County)

Early Iron Age Storage Pit at Porumbenii Mari-Varfele (Harghita County)

channeling on the lower part of the neck. The prominent belly is decorated with vertical channeling. H.: 42 cm, Rd.: 29 cm, Bd.: 12.5 cm.

3. Medium size vessel (INV. 17.593, Figure 3/3), with composite shape, prominent body, conical base, the neck and the rim are missing, well smoothed and polished surface, brown-greyish coloured outside and grey inside, with crushed sherd temper. At the junction of the neck and the body there are four knobs, oriented upwards, surrounded by semi-circular channeling. The maximum diameter of the vessel is decorated with oblique channeling. Bd.: 13 cm.

4. Large vessel (INV. 17.594, Figure 4/1) with cylindrical neck, rounded biconical body, the rim is missing, well smoothed and polished, black coloured outside and red, black spotted inside, with crushed sherd and gravel temper. At the junction of the neck and the body there are four bosses, pushed from inside the body, surrounded with garland channeling. H.: 48.5 cm, Rd.: 31 cm, Bd.: 13.5 cm.

5. Small vessel (INV. 17.595, Figure 4/2), with outcurved rim, arched neck, and rounded biconical body, well smoothed, brown-brick red coloured, with sand temper. Rd.: 18.5 cm.

6. Small vessel (INV. 17.596, Figure 4/3), with outcurved rim, arched neck, rounded, globular body, well smoothed, polished, black coloured outside and brown-brick red inside, with sand temper. On the neck, below the rim there are two small handles. The neck is decorated with horizontal channeling and the body with garland channeling. Rd.: 14 cm.

7. Bag-shaped vessel fragment (INV. 17.597, Figure 4/4), without neck and rim, coarse, poor smoothed, brown coloured, greyish spotted, oxidant firing, with crushed sherd temper. Bd.: 10 cm.

8. Shallow bowl fragment (Figure 7/6), with outcurved rim, well smoothed, polished, black inside and brown-greyish outside, with sand temper. The inner part of the rim is decorated with horizontal channeling.

9. Vessel fragment (Figure 5/5), with outcurved rim, well smoothed, polished, grey coloured outside and brown-greyish inside, with gravel temper.

10. Globular vessel fragment (Figure 5/1), well smoothed, polished, with black colour outside and brown-greyish inside, with crushed sherd temper, and garland channeling on the upper part of the body.

11. Vessel fragment (Figure 5/4), with vertical channeling on the rounded biconical body, black outside and brick red-brown inside, well smoothed, with crushed sherd temper.

12. Fragmentary animal figurine (Figure 1/2) naturalistic made of burned clay, brown-red coloured. Its head is missing.

Stray finds from surface collections

13. Bag-shaped vessel (Figure 6/3), with a knob on the neck, coarse, poor smoothed, greyish-brick red coloured with secondary burning and gravel temper.

14. Bag-shaped vessel (Figure 6/5), with a knob on the neck, coarse, poor smoothed, greyish-brown coloured with secondary burning, with crushed sherd and gravel temper.

15. Vessel fragment (Figure 5/3), with rounded biconical body, well smoothed, grey outside and greyish-brown inside, with crushed sherd temper.

16. Vessel fragment (Figure 5/2) decorated with vertical channeling on the rounded biconical body, well smoothed, brick red outside and greyish-brown inside, with crushed sherd temper.

17. Mug fragment with handle (Figure 7/4), well smoothed, brick red-brown, with crushed sherd temper.

18. Fragmentary miniature mug (Figure 7/1), medium smoothed, black-greyish coloured, fine sand temper.

19. Vessel fragment, probably a handle (Figure 7/2), decorated with incisions arranged in a fishbone pattern, well smoothed, black-greyish, fine sand temper.

20. Bag-shaped vessel (Figure 6/4), medium smoothed, greyish-brown with secondary burning and with crushed sherd temper.

21. Mug fragment (Figure 7/3), with outcurved rim, conical base, decorated inside the rim with channeling, well smoothed, polished, black, fine sand temper.

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