Cristian, Virag (szerk.): Neolithic cultural phenomena in the Upper Tisa Basin (Satu Mare, 2015)

Piroska Csengeri: Middle Neolithic Painted Pottery from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, North-Eastern Hungary

Piroska Csengeri

2al) arched/circular incised lines inside of which wholly covered by painting and between them painted decoration built up from narrow, straight, slanting lines (PI. 2, 2 and 4; PI. 5, 1)

2a2) angular/quadrangular incised lines inside of which wholly covered by painting and between them painted decoration built up from narrow, straight, slanting lines (PI. 2, 10-11; PI. 3, 1-2; like la2) type)28 2a3) angular and wavy incised lines inside of which wholly covered by painting and between them painted decoration built up from narrow, straight, slanting lines

(PI. 6)

2a4) painted decoration built up from narrow, wavy lines between wavy, incised lines29

2a5) broader painted decoration that covered whole arched areas between the incised lines (PI. 4, 1-2)

2a6) broader painted decoration that covered whole angular areas between the incised lines (PI. 4, 3-4)

2a7) incised horizontal or wavy line(s) under the rim emphasized by black painting (PI. 4, 2-3)

2a8) incised horizontal lines under the rim emphasized by black painting and between them decoration built up from short, vertical dashes (PI. 6)

2a9) incised horizontal line under the rim and narrow or broader painted line above it 2b) painting on the incised lines with narrow or broader stripes to emphasize the incisions - variants of this subtype have been aligned to incised decoration motives (PI. 3, 3; PI. 5, 2-5)30

Black painted lines most often have occurred with plain margins on Novajidrány and on Szentistvánbaksa ceramics and only sometimes can be noted pearled margins (PI. 2, 12).31 Black-pearled painting of the 1st phase of ALP culture could have originated from the Körös/ Criş culture32 and forth from the Balkans.33 In their monograph on Mezőkövesd-Mocsolyás, N. Kalicz and J. Koós mentioned that on sites of Eastern Slovakia and North-western Romania this type of painting lacked.34 They alluded that besides the black-pearled painting a variant of it with “vibrating” lines often had appeared in that site.35 This latter shape of margin of painted lines has also been frequent on Szentistvánbaksa painted pottery (Pl. 1, 5; Pi. 2, 6 and 10-11; PI. 6) and it occurs in Novajidrány material (in unpublished part of it), too.

On below vessel types can be observed painted decoration (see also on Fig. 3 and 4):

1. vessels with low or high neck and globular or quadrangular body (in different sizes; Fig. 5; Pl. 1, 1-5; Pi. 2, 2 and 5, 7-11),

2. conical, deep bowls often with quadrangular mouth (PI. 3, 1-3; Pi. 4, 2-4; PI. 6),36

3. hollow-pedestalled bowls (PI. 2, 3; Pi. 5, 1-3),

4. conical cups often with quadrangular mouth,37

28 Csengeri 2003, 52 and Fig. 9, 2 and 4.

29 Csengeri 2003, 52 and Fig. 9, 5 and 6.

30 Csengeri 2003, 52 and Fig. 11,5.

31 Csengeri 2003, 52 and Fig. 9, 1.

32 Raczky 1988, 27; Nagy 1998, 85.

33 Kalicz/Koós 2014, 52; Nagy 1998, 85.

34 Kalicz/Koós 2014, 52. But Kozlowski/Nowak 2010, Fig. 9, 7 published a ceramics with black-pearled painting from Slavkovce.

35 Kalicz/Koós 2014, 52.

36 Csengeri 2003, Fig. 9, 4.

37 Csengeri 2003, Fig. 9, 5-6 and Fig. 11,1.

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