Folia archeologica 3-4.
Banner János: Badeni leletek a szabolcsmegyei vissről
44 BANNER: FINDS OF THE BADEN CULTURE FROM VISS (COUNTY SZABOLCS) where the projection was more or less placed as previously mentioned. It occurs also in the vicinity of Báta 58 .(PI. IV, fig. 2) with quite definitive outlines, at Zók 5 9 with emphasised projection and at Makáralja (PI. IV, fig. 8) and Megyer 6 0 with a somewhat smaller protuberance. But it crosses the line of the Danube northward and thus we find it in the Kalvaria vineyard 6 1 at Léva (PI. IV, fig. 6) and at Garamdamásd 6 2 (Pl. IV, fig. 7). It approaches our territory mostly at Szederkény 6 3 (PI. III, fig. 1). In the National Museum collection there are similar specimens from Zsámbék and Fonyód. This form is the forerunner of the fragment from Tiszapolgár (Fig. 1) with one emphasised projection, which occurs also at Tiszakeszi 64 (Pl. IV, figs. 3a—b) in a quite graceful form together with the longish, ansa lunata vessel, already referred to (Pl. IV, figs. 4a —b). Among the vessels from the settlement of Viss this form is also represented (PI. I, fig. 6). To sum up what we have said, it is obvious that these handles so very characteristic of the Viss settlement, never appear in their entire development where the small vessels of the early type of the Baden culture occur in great numbers. In a certain form this vessel has also reached as far as here, but it is the only one; remaining from the seemingly earliest material. Those forms which we know west of here do not occur on the settlement. On the other hand the forms familiar here cannot be found there. This division could be territorial, but more possible it is chronological, which is proved by the single vessel of which the lower part is decorated with definitive wárts, on which are concentric circles. The only well known analogy of this specimen is the vessel of Tiszasas, 65 of which the age is no longer doubtful since we have become acquainted with the cultural! Szeged. 5 8 In the Szekszárd Museum. 5 9 Pécs Museum: nos. 62—4. 6 0 Ibid. no. 87. 6 1 Munkács Museum: Lehoczky collection, 1898. 6 2 In the collection of the Ipolyság State Gymnasium. 6 3 In the collection of the Ref. College at Sárospatak: no. 34/11 6 4 In the Mickolc Museum. I sphere of Bodrogkeresztur. On the basis of its decoration it can be rightly classed with the relics of that culture. This assigns the Viss vessel to a later period than could be expected on the basis of the authentic finds from the Great Plain. 6 6 Concerning the chronology of this culture we have two such data which are based on exact stratigraphical observations. The one is the cemetery of the Copper Age at Kiskőrös 6 7 where the graves of the Bodrogkeresztur culture were embedded in the dwellingpits of the Baden culture, which shows that the Baden culture was previous to that of Bodrogkeresztur. The other is the settlement on the Bodzáspart at Hódmezővásárhely, where the relics of the Baden culture where found in pits nos. 4 and 15 above those of the Aeneolithic Period. In pit no. 4 the Aeneolithic vessels were under an animal burial mixed with sherds of the Baden 'culture, and in pit no. 15 under the relics of the Baden culture were an Aeneolithic symbolic and an inhumation interment in contracted attitude, which prove that the Aeneolithic Period preceded the Baden culture. That is to say that on the basis of the data of Kiskőrös and Bodzáspart the Baden culture flourished in the time between the Aeneolithic Period and the Bodrog, keresztúr culture. After the occurrence of the vessel imitating the decoration of the vessel from Tiszasas it seems probable that the Baden culture not only reached the highest point of development of the Bodrogkeresztur culture, but taking over its decorative elements survived it and in some places, perhaps in the east parts of Hungary still flourished for a long time. This determination makes even more probable the assumption, that also through its influences the culture lived on. 6 8 János Banner 6 5 Hampel, Relics of the Bronze Age in Hungary (A bronzkor emlékei Magyarhonban) II, CXLII. — Äberg, Bronzezeitliche und früheisenzeitliche Chronologie. Teil III, p. 29, Fig. 32. — Arch. Ért. 1887, p. 59. 6 6 Wart - ornamentation occurs on the already mentioned vessel from Zebegény. A suspending vessel from Tátika is also decorated with concentric circles. 6 7 P. Z. 1931, p. 103, fig. 1. 6 8 Diss. Pann. Ser. II, No. 13, p. 17.
