Folia archeologica 46.

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

96 HARC.

N'A ORAVECZ types (Fig. 3. 4, Fig. 6. 4, Fig. 10. 11—12),

5 while the middle and high conical or slightly convex pedestal variants are some of the most widespread types of the Alföld Linear Pottery (Fig. 3. 10, Fig. 5.5, 7, 9, Fig. 10. 6, 8, 10, 13). The bowl part of these pedestalled vessels is usually hemispherical (Fig. 3. 10, Fig. 6. 4-5, Fig. 10. 3, 6). The most distinctive feature is deeply incised line running around the vessel at the junction of the two vessel parts. These bowls are usually smoothed and unornomented, although more popular forms decorated with wavy lines also occur. The remains of the white or black incrustation have survived in some of the incised lines. Traces of red pastose paint can often be found on the inner side of the pedestal. The size and height of the open bowls vary, and they usuallv have wide mouth (the walls are sometimes slightly rounded) (Fig. 5. 8, 10-11, Fig. 8. 3, Fig. 15. 2, Fig. 11.2, Fig. 13. 10). They are frequently unornamented, their surface is roughly smoothed or covered with a clay slip. The more carefully made speciments are usually decorated with characteristic ALP patterns. The motifs were lightly incised and then carefully smoothed. The majority of globular vessels can be assigned to a larger, more general category. The distinguishing feature of these peaces is their size and the form of their rims. Vessels with inturned rims occur alongside straight and outturned rims (Fig. 4. 1-7, 9, Fig.

6. 2-3, 6, Fig. 7. 1-2, 5-6, Fig. 10. 4, 17-18, Fig. 11.4-6, Fig. 12. 1-2, Fig. 13. 4-6, 9, 11). They are mostly decorated with incised patterns of one or two lines, "Schlickwurf'- barbotine, row of punctates running under the rim, a coarsened or, conversely, smoothed surface-characteristics which are generally regarded as a distinctive feature of the early ALP period.

7 Globular jars with a low and wide neck can he seen as the "type fossils" of this assemblage. They occur in different sizes (Fig. 3. 6-9, Fig. 6. 9, Fig. 8. 3-4, 7, Fig. 9. 1-2, 4, 6-7). These vessels are usually coarse and undecorated. Ornamented varieties have simple incised patterns. On one small jar the incised decoration was highlighted with painting (Fig. 3. 7). On another fragment a vertical rib, a socalled internal handle was applied to the interior of the vessel which, in view of its size, may also have been used for storing grain (Fig. 12. 6). The same shape has variants with narrowing, low or barely distinguishable neck. None of these were made with the usual ALP technique and their ornamentation is also unique. These thin-walled vessels were tempered with mica and they were fired to a black colour (Fig. 14. 9-10). One fragment is decorated with interlinked circles, the imprint of the so-called beaded style (Fig. 14. 11). The best analogies to this pattern are known from the Alföld Linear Pottery assemblages of the Upper Tisza region. The distribution and the survival of this painting are generally regarded as a tradition from the Transylvanian variant of the Körös culture.

8 A unique variant of the globular vessel form could be identified among the larger pottery fragments. The most distinctive feature of this shape is that the break between the rim and the bellv was emphasized with an incised line rather than a shark break in the E

rofile. The lower part of the belly is concave, while the upper part is convex. The elly was originally adorned with four large knobs. The pattern was a combination of black painted bands (arranged in a radial composition) and incised lines (Fig. 14. 13). Analogies to the form and the decoration can be quoted from the ALP assemblages of the Upper Tisza region.

9 5 Cp. a few classical examples from the Körös Culture: Kutzián 1944/47, Pl. XXXII. 8 and PI. LI. 1. 6 Kalicz-Makay 1977,50-57. 7 Kalicz-Makay 1977, PI. 9. 2; Raczky 1983, 168. 8 Raczky 1983', 187; Idem 1988, 27. ' 9 Kalicz-Makay 1977, PI. 9. 5, PI. 11. 18; Raczky 1983, 15.