Pop, Dan: The Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Petea-Csengersima (Satu Mare, 2009)
III. Archaeological inventory and interpretation of the Middle Bronze Age features
The intermediary pottery comprised pots, tureens and bowls. The black-grey fabric was often covered by a brown-brick-red or black layer and contained sand with medium-sized grains, crushed sherds and mica. Its burning was even. The small sized vessels were made of fine fabric, especially cups, tureens, miniature vessels and rarely pots. The fabric was homogeneous, compact, well fired, and contained fine sand and mica. The fabric was black or black-grey, covered on the inside and on the outside by a fine, brown or black layer, rarely brick-red. Some cases revealed two layers of slip. The first was cream-brick-rcd coloured and used to cover the uneven surface, the second was black or black-grey. It must be mentioned that a significant part of the pottery was corroded or secondary burnt. Thus, the initial aspect of the vessels was not preserved and the slip was partially or completely erased. In terms of vessel shapes we could distinguish the following types: pots, tureens/bowls, cups and portable cooking vessels. Since not all the material has been processed so far, I shall make only a general presentation of the forms and decorations. I. Pots 1.1. Pots with the margins evenly thickened and out-turned; the outside rim was flat; the neck was arched and the body was bi-conical. They were fit with two large handles, wide strapped, or with two small handles, narrow strapped, placed at the base of the neck or right beneath the rim. The wide strapped handles were usually situated at the base of the neck, and the narrow strapped ones were placed beneath the rim. The pot was often decorated on the outer margin of the rim with small pricks or with small incisions which were short, oblique or horizontal, in the shape of a grain of rice. It had small hatched arcades in groups of two or interlaced, made by incision beneath the rim and between the handles. Hatched arcades were also to be found in the upper part of the body, between the chained spirals, which were also made by incisions. The spirals turned interlaced on the maximum diameter of the body, which was marked by a small boss made by pushing into the soft fabric of the vessel from the inside towards the outside (PI. 1/2; 8/1; 9/5; 24/2; 25/8-9; 37/1-2; 52/8 -secondary fired and out of shape; and very likely the fragments from PI.12/1-2; 14/1; 22/3; 42/1-2; 48/1; 65/1-2; 68/9-10). It is possible that the undecoratcd sherds, with similar margins to the vessels above, belonged to the same type, but the preserved pieces were undecorated and the shape of the body can't be determined (PI. 13/1; 19/2; 23/1; 25/5; 42/3; 64/1; 68/6). Both decorated and undecorated sherds were made of intermediary fabric. 1.2. Pots with round margins, slightly thickened and outcurving, arched body with the maximum diameter bigger than the diameter of the mouth. The preserved fragments were undecorated and were made of intermediary fabric (PI. 1/3; 2/1; 9/1, 3; 16/2; 17/6; 22/2; 27/4; 42/5, 8; 48/3-5; 64/4; and very likely 53/5). 1.3. Pots with round margins, evenly thickened and slightly arched body. The small fragments that were preserved were made of intermediary fabric and lacked decorations. One of the fragments had a wide strap handle beneath the rim (Pl.47/4). (Pl.4/8; 19/1; 64/9). 1.4. Pots with inverted margins, the maximum diameter of the body exceeded the maximum diameter of the rim; the rim was round, thickened at the outside, flat or inverted; with more or less arched body. One of the fragments had an arched button (Pl. 11/5) beneath the rim, and other five fragments were fit with strap handles beneath the rim. The small, arched bosses were most probably four in number and were symmetrically arranged on the vessel. This type of pots were made of intermediary fabric (Pl.3/2; 4/2, 4; 7/5; 11/5; 13/2-4; 29/1; 31/2; 42/6, 11; 50/2-3; 55/5-6; 63/4). 1.5. Similar pots with the previous type; both were made of intermediary fabric and coarse fabric, only that they had round margins, evenly thickened and inverted. They lacked decorations and some of them were fit with two handles beneath the rim (PI.7/2; 23/5; 28/4; 35/2; 40/4 and very likely 69/3). 1.6. Pots made of coarse fabric, bag-shaped, with Hat or round margins, inverted or slightly thickened on the outside; the body was slightly bulging. They were often decorated by a relief design of an arched belt (PI.1/6; 16/1; 17/1; 18/1-4; 24/1; 25/1-2; 31/1, 3; 34/1; 36/1-2; 40/2; 41/1- 2; 43/7-9; 46/3-5; 52/1,4-5; 53/3; 54/1; 55/7; 59/1-4; 63/2; 65/3; 68/1), and rarely by two belts of the same type beneath the rim (PI.43/10). The vessels of this type were quite often fit with small 14
