Pop, Dan: The Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Petea-Csengersima (Satu Mare, 2009)

III. Archaeological inventory and interpretation of the Middle Bronze Age features

conical buttons or plain, oval or arched bosses arranged horizontally beneath the prominent belt (PI.5/1; 18/2; 24/1; 36/2; 41/2; 43/7; 46/4; 52/4-5; 54/1; 55/7; 59/2; 65/3; 68/1).

1.7. Pots made of coarse fabric, with round or flat margins, evenly thickened, with the rim diameter larger than the maximum diameter of the body; the body was conical or slightly arched. They were decorated by a relief design of an arched belt (PI.25/3; 27/1; 28/1-2; 43/6; 46/1-2; 68/2), underneath which were elongate, horizontal, and arched bosses (PI.28/2). A variant of that type was the fragment from PI.7/1 which, unlike the others, had a slightly wide and out-turned margin. The previously mentioned fragments originated from the upper part of the vessels and resembled the fragments that belonged to the portable cooking vessels (PI. 62/1), so that some of them were likely to belong to the latter pottery type.

1.8. Pots with lobed margins, evenly thickened or slightly out-turned, round at the upper part; conical or arched body, flat bottom. They were mostly made of intermediary fabric and rarely of coarse fabric. Some fragments were decorated with small conical buttons, arranged under the rim, or they were decorated with superficial grooves (PI. 4/1; 40/5; 51/1; probably 54/2; 58/1; 66/3).

It is most likely that some other fragments, very much alike in shape, but lacking lobes, belonged to this type of vessels (PI.7/6; 9/9; 52/3). One of the fragments was decorated with shallow grooves.

1.9. Pots with out-turned rims, conical or slightly arched bodies, sometimes having two strap handles situated under the rim. All fragments lacked decorations and were made of intermediary fabric (PI.7/6; 9/9; 52/3). It is most likely that this type represented the vessel from PI.50/1, with slightly thickened margins at the outside, with two handles beneath the rim, decorated with relief zoomorphic motifs.

1.10. Pots with evenly thickened margins, slightly outcurved, cylindrical or conical neck, most likely with conical body, undecorated. Two strap handles were usually situated under the rim; they were made of coarse fabric (PI. 18/5; and most likely 25/12; 36/4).

1.11. Pots with evenly thickened margins and strongly arched towards the outside ; with „S”shaped profile, and in some situations with two strap handles situated at the base of the neck decorated with relief zoomorphic motifs. The pots were made of intermediary fabric (PI. 31/4; 47/3; 67/8).

The following fragments also belonged to some pots: PI. 1/7; 2/2-5; 4/3, 5, 7; 5/1-2, 4-5; 7/3-4; 9/2,4; 11/1-2; 12/4; 13/5-6; 14/4, 7; 16/3-4, 6; 17/5, 8; 18/6; 23/2; 29/2; 36/3; 40/7; 41/3-5; 42/4, 7, 9; 43/3-4; 46/6-7; 47/1-2; 48/6-8, 10; 50/5-6; 53/4, 6; 54/7; 55/1, 3-4; 56/1-2, 4, 6; 57/2- 6; 58/3; 59/5-6; 63/1: 64/3, 5-6, 8, 10-11; 67/7; 68/3-5.

II. Tureens

11.1. Tureen with out-turned rim, was likely to have four lobes that came out of the rim; semispherical body. Its body was decorated with incised lines, and the outside extremity of its margins had small pricks in circular disposal. It was made of fine fabric („rice grain”) PI. 8/2.

11.2. Tureens with outside, thickened margins, out-turned, semi-spherical body or bulged. The outside margin was decorated by small pricks in the shape of rice grain or by short, oblique, incised lines. The body was decorated with spirals that were made either by incision or by fluting (PI. 11/3; 20/4; 34/5; 35/4-5; 36/7; 44/1; 49/4; 52/6; 63/5; 66/1; 69/4-5; one vessel lacked decorations pi.57/1). They were made of fine, intermediary fabric.

Tureens from pi. 1/8; 2/7; 29/6; 35/3 resemble the previously described, but they were likely to have a conical body.

11.3. Tureens with round margin on the outside and obliquely inverted, with semi-spherical body, undecorated. They were made of intermediary fabric (Pl. 11/7; 44/2-3).

11.4. Tureen with the margin thickened at the outside, flat and slightly inverted, the body was slightly arched and decorated in the same manner as those of the type 11.2. They were made of fine fabric (PI. 26/1).

11.5. Small sized bowl with evenly thickened margin, round and slightly out-turned. The body was semi-spherical; decorated in similar way with type II.2. It was made of fine fabric (PI. 26/2).

11.6. Conical tureens with evenly thickened margin, round or slightly thickened at the outside; flat bottom, undecorated. They were made of intermediary fabric (PI. 26/3; 31/5-6; 58/2; 60/3, 5; very likely 29/7).

11.7. Tureens that resembled the previous type, but they had outcurving margin. They lacked decorations and were made of intermediary fabric (PI. 48/11; 60/6).

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