Gáti Csilla (szerk.): A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 54., 2016-2017 (Pécs, 2017)
RÉGÉSZET - Viktor Wéber: Settlement of the Early Urnfield period at Majs–Borza-major (Southern Transdanubia, Hungary)
A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve ( 2017 ) 204 4. Pouring vessel While the rest of the assemblage was dated to the Late Tumulus Culture by B. Maráz, she has seen the undecorated askos-like pouring vessel (Fig. 16/ 5) as a characteristic of the Early Urnfield period and she considered the bird-shaped vessel with lid and pedestal from Mohács ( Patek 1968: Taf. CI.1–2., Kovács 1972: 17.) as its closest analogy ( Maráz 1979: 124., 131., 156.). According to C. Eibner, the use of pouring vessels falls mostly in the Ha A-Ha B period. ?e ovoid pouring vessel from Majs belongs to Eibner’s type with bilateral symmetry ( Eibner 1973). Vessels with pouring sprouts are known from Velem ( Miske 1907: Taf. 54.20.), Neszmély ( Patek 1961: 43., 53., Taf. II.3., Taf. XXIII.12.), the Dalj-Batina group ( Vinski-Gasparini 1973: Tab. 116.10., Kőszegi 1988: 56. t. 5–6., 61. t. 1., Metzner-Nebelsick 2002: Abb. 73.7–8., Taf. 50.7., Taf. 116.9.) and Békásmegyer ( Kalicz-Schreiber et al. 2010: 27., 51., 116., 207., 242., 257–258., Typentaf. 10.12–14., Typentaf. 11.1– 2., Taf. 11.8., Taf. 32.4., Taf. 163.4., Taf. 197.4., Taf. 199.8.) in Transdanubia. Pouring vessels of the Dalj-Batina group are usually decorated and they also have longer, upward pointing sprouts. C. Metner-Nebelsick notes the lack of pouring vessels in Northern Baranya, which, in her opinion, may be explained with the scarcity of Late Urnfield sites in the region. She also dismisses the function of the vessel type as nursing vessel, proposed by Eibner, and sees them as libation vessels, proposing a ritual role for the vessels with pouring sprouts ( Metzner-Nebelsick 2002: 149.). It should be noted that the pouring vessel from Majs is the first known example of the type in the Transdanubian region that has unequivocally come from a settlement context. ?is does not necessarily mean that the function as a libation vessel proposed by Metzner-Nebelsick should be rejected, but the occurrence of the type in a settlement’s refuse pit may suggest that vessels with pouring sprouts of the Urnfield period might not have exclusively belonged to funerary rites. 5. Other fragments 5.1. Base sherds A total of 6 base sherds were found in the pit, 3 of which belong to smaller and 3 to larger vessels, the latter probably belonged to pots (Fig. 9/ 3–5). 5.1.1. Smaller concave bases M. Črešnar dated the introduction of concave bases to the Ha A period and noted their increased number in the Ruše group ( Črešnar 2010: 47.). ?e concave bases of the Szigetszentmiklós assemblage were connected to conical bowls and
