Folia archeologica 46.

T. Dobosi Viola - Vári Ágnes: Horváth Adolf János régészeti feljegyzései

108 HARC.

N'A ORAVECZ 15. ábra: 1-7. Miniatűr edények és egyéb leletek. Fig. 15.: Miniature vessels and other finds from the Middle Neolithic settlement. 1:2. Only a single biconical bowl was found. The carination is slightly rounded (Fig. 3. 4). Good parallels to this form are known from the earliest ALP assemblages. 0 Flat plate. Fragments have been found with small scollaped rim (Fig. 8. 2, 5, Fig. 9. 8). The flasks commonly have oval body and a cylindrical neck (Fig. 7. 8, Fig. 8. 6, Fig. 11. 1). Most are undecorated. Miniature vessels are usually small copies of the larger ones. Most were found intact (Fig. 3. 2-3, Fig. 6. 4, Fig. 15. 1,3, 6-7). One of the more carefully made and ornamented miniature vessels was covered with red ochre inside (Fig. 9. 3). Face pot. The original form of this cannot be reconstructed. The fragment comes from with an outterned straight rim. It is decorated with a human head and a female torso. The eyes are indicated with perforations, the nose and the brests with three tiny knobs (Fig. 14. 8). The fabric of this sherd corresponds to the fabric of the household pottery from the settlement, but the depictation itself this kind of represetation of human face and body - is not known from other ALP material. One single chalice fragment was recovered. Its form, decoration and technology differ from the average. The vessel has outterned straight rim and a pear shaped belly. Its decoration with a pattern of concentric circles painted with a black pitch - like substance (Fig. 14.7). Its paralellels can be quoted from the "Szamos Region Painted Pottery".

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1 Since the bulk of the caramic inventory is made up of fragments, it is impossible to analyze more pottery forms. Neither could the shape of the Biikk imports be reconstructed. Their technique and ornomentation differs from the general. They were tempered with mica and were fired to a brownish or greyish black colour, and were decorated with bundles of lines, concentric circles, meandric and other patterns incised with a very sharp tool (Fig. 14. 1-5). 1

0 Raczky 1988, 27. 1

1 Korek 1977, Fig. 23. 7, 9.