Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/3. (2009)

Rezi Botond, Nagy József-Gábor: Rescue Excavations at Chinari "Mociar" (Mureş County)

Rescue Excavations at Chinari “Mociar” (Мищ County)

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129. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/129), coarse, poor smoothed, brick-red coloured, oxidant firing, crushed sherd temper, decorated with a knob with an impression.

130. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/130), coarse, poor smoothed, brown coloured, oxidant firing, fine sand temper, decorated with incised parallel wavy lines on the body.

131. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/131), semi fine, medium smoothed, brown/brick-reddish coloured, oxidant firing, fine sand temper, decorated with incised lines on the body.

132. Body fragment with looped handle (Fig. XXI/132), semi fine, medium smoothed, black outside and brick-red inside, reduction outside and oxidant firing inside, crushed sherd temper, undecorated.

133. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/133), coarse, medium smoothed, brick-red coloured, oxidant firing, crushed sherd temper, oblique incisions arranged in a “fishbone pattern”.

134. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/134), semi fine, well smoothed, gray outside and black inside, reduction firing, crushed sherd temper, decorated with incised parallel wavy lines on the body.

135. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/135), coarse, poor smoothed, brick-red coloured, oxidant firing, fine sand temper, undecorated.

136. Body iragment (Fig. XXI/136), coarse, well smoothed, black/greyish outside and brick-red inside, reduction outside and oxidant firing inside, crushed sherd temper, decorated with incised parallel wavy lines on the body.

137. Body fragment (Fig. XXI/137), semi fine, medium smoothed, brown outside and black inside, oxidant firing outside reduction inside, crushed sherd temper, decorated with garland channelling inside the vessel.

Burned Clay Objects

138. Fragmentary portable hearth (Fig. XXII/138), well smoothed, brown coloured, oxidant firing, crushed sherd temper, decorated with horizontal channelling on the rim.

139. Burned clay object (Fig. XXII/139), poor smoothed, brown/yellowish coloured, oxidant firing, fine sand temper.

140. Fragmentary conical shaped weight (Fig. XXII/140), poor smoothed, brown coloured, oxidant firing, fine sand temper.

Animal Figurines

141. Fragmentary animal figurine (Fig. XXII/141), probably a ram, naturalistic worked from burned clay, well smoothed, brown/greyish coloured, fine sand temper.

142. Fragmentary animal figurine (Fig. XXII/142), probably a dog, naturalistic worked from burned clay, well smoothed, brick-red coloured, fine sand temper.

Pottery Analysis

The purpose of the present article is to study the ceramic material from Chinari “Mociar”. The majority of the archaeological material consists of pottery, out of which we analyzed the well-defined forms and the fragments with characteristic decorations, approximately 25% of the total number of fragments. In the description of the pottery we took into consideration the vessels part (lip or rim, neck, upper, middle or lower part of the body, bottom or base), forms of vessels (“bag-shaped”, bitronconic and globular vessels, shallow and deep bowls, mugs), pottery category (fine, semi fine, coarse), outside and inside surface treatment (good, medium, poor smoothing, polished), the temper used (fine sand, gravel, crushed sherd), outside and inside colour which shows the outside and inside firing (oxidant or