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Pál Patay Reminiscences My Archaeological Wandernings in Pest County English Summaries The paper is a highly coloured narrative of an outstanding Hungarian archaeologist, Pál Patay, about the history of archaeology in Pest County during his active working period, from the 1930s until the 1960s. The author started attending archaeological excavations in his teens and during the early years of the 1930s he had worked under the leadership of such famous Hungarian archaeologists as, for example, Jenő Hillebrand and Nándor Fettich. The article presents a vivid description about how the small scale rescue excavations in Pest County during the 1950s were carried out. Pál Patay also tells the story of how he experienced the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 while he was running an excavation at the Rád-Kishegy site with a Slovakian colleague. Finally, he reveals how the large scale investigations of the famous Devil’s Dyke started in Pest County in 1962. Agnes Kovács Fragments of Face-Decorated Vessels from the Site No. 4/1 of Cegléd In 2003-2004 outside the town of Cegléd in the site No. 4/1 (Cegléd-Váróczi-fields, Cegléd— Hodula-fields) we have excavated a Middle Neolithic settlement belonging to the so-called Szakálhát culture. The majority of the archaeological features were different kind of pits (refuse and burrow pits), moreover, we have found 15 graves and the section of a double ditch-system with ,,V”-shaped cross-section on the western edge of the uncovered settlement. In my article I show seven fragments of face pots from the Szakálhát assamblage. With one exception the sherds belong to the typical face pots of the Szakálhát culture decorated with an ,,M”-motif. They are the fragments of large vessels with cylindrical neck and round body, decorated with rich incised patterns and pastose red painting, and on some sherds the characteristic columnar handle of the Szakálhát face-decorated vessels can also be recognised. Close analogies of these sherds are those fragments of face-decorated vessels that were found in other Hungarian sites of the Szakálhát culture, such as the ones at Szentes-Ilonapart, Kunszentmárton-Kettőshalom, Csanytelek-Ujhalastó, Вattonya—Gödrösök, and Kömlő-Birka-Járó-Legelő. The first fragment was discovered in a pit in which a thin clay closing layer, a lot of traces of burning, and the fragment of a human skull were also found. The pit must have had a special function, it might be connected with the sacral and symbolic space within the settlement, similarly to the special pits found at Gyoma-Ozed and Törökbálint- Dulácska. The main speciality of the third sherd is that on the human face representation the ears were also depicted by clay ribs. The representation of ears is rather seldom on the face pots of the Szakálhát culture, it only occurs on the face-decorated vessel of the Gyoma—Özed site dated to the earliest phase of the culture, and on the face pots of late Alp culture (for example, Tiszafüred—Morotvapart, and Füzesabony-Kettőshalom). The sixth fragment is absolutely unique, it does not fit into the main group of the characteristic Szakálhát-type of face pots. It might be supposed that it belonged among the strongly symplified, unique imitations. The sherd is the neck fragment of a large, coarse, chafftempered vessel on which the eyes and the mouth were depicted by shallow grooves drawn by human finger under the rim, the nose was represented by a smal knob, and no other decoration can be seen on the fragment, even the „M”motif is missing. 169
