A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1982/83-1. (Szeged, 1985)

Régészet - Hegedűs Katalin: The Settlement of the Neolithic Szakálhát-Group at Csanytelek–Újhalastó

possible.

108 A flat clay figurine adorned with a similar pattern as the one on our vessel was also found at Ilonapart. This idol reached the Leiden Museum in 1970 under mysterious circumstances.

109 The 11.5 cm high torso represents a female figurine; the head, arms and legs of the solid, enthroned figurine are missing. The body is covered with incised meander patterns arranged into rectangular panels. This patterns appears to be the stylized depiction of a ritual costume which left the breasts exposed. The costume of the Leiden idol shows close affinities to the meandric ornamentation of the face vessels from Battonya and Csanytelek. The ornamentation of human face vessel 1 is shown in Fig. 17. The hair and side whiskers, the vertically pierced, horizontally placed angular handles were whiteish-yellow in colour, the dotted areas were covered with pastose re d paint Human face vessel 2 (PI. II) This human face vessel was a large, coarse storage jar. Only fragments of its upper part have survived; the height of the fragment is 36 cm. Vertical serrations on the outer side of the rim mark the hair, two deep vertical incisions indicate the eyes and the nose was modelled by a small clay knob. The face is bordered by the characteristic 'M' sign. A plastic rib with diagonal serrations perhaps indicating a necklace, runs at the base of the neck. Oppositely set columnar handles with serrations spanning the neck most probably represent the arms.

110 A deeply incised garland pattern encircles the shoulder of the vessel; this most probably bordered the Sspirals decorating the body of the pot. Numerous parallels are known from Szakáihát contexts, of which some are housed in the Szentes museum. Of these we shall now only quote the face vessels from Szentes—

Ilonapart, Szentes—Jaksorpart and Szentes—Megyeháza.

111 Human face vessel 3 (Pl. IV.) The neck fragment from a large human face vessel was found in pit in the course of the excavations conducted by M. Galántha. The face under the straight rim shows the customary modelling; two horizontal incisions delineate the eyes, a small horizontal knob represents the nose with two round impressions marking the nostrils. The remains of the 'M' sign indicating the chin can be seen under the face; enclosed in a panel, an incised 'H'-like sign can be seen to its right, followed by a columnar handle covered with 'V'-shaped incisions. An incised meandric pattern adorns the other side of the neck. The vessel was tempered with fine powder obtained by grinding sherds; its surface was fired to a bright terracotta colour. Diameter of mouth: 33.5 cm, height of fragment: 20.5 cm. Apart from the three completely or partially preserved human face vessels described in the foregoing, numerous fragments of such vessels were recovered during the excavations from pits 9,10, 13 and 14. Most of these fragments are rim or neck fragments (PI. X : 1—4) and body fragments (PI. X : 5,7). 108 Csalog, J., op. cit., Acta Ant. et Arch. 10 (1966) PI. I: 5. 109 Hegedűs, К., Űjkőkori lakótelep Csanytelek határában (Neolithic settlement at Csanytelek). Arch. Ert. 1981) Figs. 4, 3—12. 110 Csalog, J., Acta Ant. et Arch. 10 (1966) 50. 111 Ibid., Pis. I and II. 40