Folia archeologica 24.

Tibor Kovács: Representations of Weapons on Bronze Age Pottery

10 T. KOVÁCS tions of contemporaneous pottery.

2 When reassembling the sherds, there were no difficulties except for inserting a larger decorated fragment of the shoulder authentically. The dimensions of the reconstructed jar are as follows: H.: 64 cm, W. : 30 cm, L. of the dagger: 8,2 cm. Fragment of a jar with the representation of a hand ( Fig. 4). In the SW. area of the hilltop settlement of Mende a sherd, coming from a brown pot of similar dimensions as the former one, came to light, also in consequence of disturbing, from a depth of 50 cm. On the fragment there is an arm, plastically formed, starting from a decorated shoulder part and ending in a hand, represented with spread fingers. The fragment allows the conclusion that the shoulder of the jar was decorated with encircling horizontal, resp. vertical lines. H.: 10,5 cm.

3 IGAR — VÁMPUSZTA Fragment of ajar with the representation of a hand ( Fig. 5). This hilltop settlement of the Vatya culture is situated at the so-called Galástya area, near IgarVámpuszta. From this ground, disturbed for decades by vine culture, in 1966 a larger find, originating in its bulk from the late period of the Vatya culture, came to the István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár. The find yielded among others a buffcoloured sherd with a plastic hand on it. H.: 7 cm. ' DUNAÚJVÁROS Urn fragment with the representation of a human figure and a dagger (Fig. 6). In the cemeteries, belonging to the Bronze Age tell settlement Dunaújváros-Koszider, successive excavations carried out by several archaeologists, yielded among others a pottery jar, similar to that of Mende. In the interval between the excavation (1951) and their entering in the inventory (1964) the material of a few graves became mixed, among them the grave complex containing the urn with the representation of a human figure. According to the label on the excavation package the pot-sherd illustrated here was found close to the ash-urn of Grave A /68. At the time of the uncovering, however, the fragment did not attract notice for there is no mention of it in the excavation diary. The latter fact is, though, not conclusive, for there are some other factors of uncertainty pointing to the fact that the connection of pottery finds, inventarized as to belonging to Grave A/68, is rather problematic. As an authentical data we can accept the fact that the fragment in question came to light in the Dunaújváros cemetery of the Vatya culture, most likely from a cremation grave. - The existing sherds are shoulder fragments of a jar of larger dimensions, with plastic arms starting from the upper shoulder part of the vessel, the fingers being marked with incised lines. Compared with the Mende piece there is an important divergence inasmuch as the plastic dagger, situated in the height of the left elbow, is attached to the shoulder with a rib - Rim and neck of the jaat needed but a complètement, a larger line of fracture secured the fitting of the shoulder; the lower part of the vessel is a reconstruction. - Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum) - henceforth abbreviated MNM - Inv. no.: 73.20.1. 3 MNM, Inv. no.: 73.20.2. ' István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár, Inv. no.: 66.32.11.