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

SZENTISTVÁNBAKSA Vessel forms

SZENTISTVÁNBAKSA Independent painted decoration (number of pieces)

SZENTISTVÁNBAKSA Painting combined with incised decoration (number of pieces)

1. vessels with low or high neck and globular or quadrangular body (in different sizes)

108

9

2. conical, deep bowls often with quadrangular mouth

1

76

3. hollow-pedestalled bowls

5

34

4. conical cups often with quadrangular mouth

0

2

5. cups and bowls with profiled neck and often with quadrangular body (in different sizes)

3

0

6. hemispherical cups

0

7

7. big vessels of house ware (forms cannot be determined)

0

0

8. cups and bowls with slightly inverted rim

0

0

9. deep cups with thicken rim

0

0

10. pouring vessels

0

3

11. deep bowls/vessels (form cannot be determined exactly)

0

17

vessel form cannot be determined

108

142

In sum:

225

290

Plate 4, Vessel forms of painted pottery of clay-extraction pit SMfrom Szentistvánbaksa-Anyagnyerő site

Furthermore, on the basis of the data of Fig. 3 and 4 it can be said that there was a relation between the forms of vessels and the main types of painting of them in Novajidrány and in Szentistvánbaksa, too. For example, in the case of necked vessels with globular or quadrangular body almost always and cups with profiled mouth exclusively the 1) type, painting without incised decoration was used. Contrary to this, on deep bowls with rounded or quadrangular mouth and on hollow-pedestalled bowls always and on conical cups often with quadrangular mouth, on hemispherical cups and on sieving vessels exclusively can be found the 2) type, combination of painted and incised decorations. The meaning of this phenomenon is not known yet.

In sum, it can be said that the best parallels of vessel forms and types of painted decoration of Novajidrány and Szentistvánbaksa ceramics can be found among Fiizesabony-134