Pop, Dan: The Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Petea-Csengersima (Satu Mare, 2009)
III. Archaeological inventory and interpretation of the Middle Bronze Age features
The decorations made by incision revitalised the decoration of this stereotypy: interlaced spirals on the body of the vessels (pots, cups, tureens/bowls) were often met on the pottery made of fine or intermediary fabric41 42 43. The next in frequency were the hatched arcades arranged under the rim44 and rarely on the body or in the inferior part45. By incision were also made top-down triangles, arranged in groups46, vertical lines in groups of twos or threes47, ladder48 motifs or star motifs49. The bottom of the vessels was in some cases decorated by incisions, in the shape of hooks or with floral motifs50. Interlaced spirals, simple circles around conical knobs, or garlands were made by fluting51. The coarse pottery which was decorated by grooves was occasional in the settlement at Csengersima52 53. Both shapes and decorative motifs on the pottery from Ceramica have analogies in the sites from the Early Suciu de Sus archaeological culture from Bârsana ”Cetăţuie - Cetăţe", Boineşti ”Coasta Boineştilor", Culciu Mic ”La gropi de siloz”, Diakovo ”Kişerda” and ”Modicitag / Mondicitag", Giuleşti ”Valea Mestecăniş", Halmeu ”Vamă”, leud ”Podereiul Dumbrăviţei", Jánkmajtis, ”Halom - dűlő", Kvasove II, Lăpuşel ”Ciurgău”, Medieşu Aurit „Şuculeu”, Medieşu Aurit ”Cioncaş", Medieşu Aurit "Togul lui Schweizer- Dâmbul Acastâului", Moftinu Mic "the side of the National Road Carei-Satu Mare”, Sarasău "După Ştrec”, Sarasău "Moară", Satu Mare ”Ştrandul Someş", Seini "IAS Ferma 7”, Sighetu Marmaţiei ”Cearda-Ţărmuri”, Sighetu Marmaţiei "Cămara Cireghi", Solotvino ”Cetate" and Tătăreşti ”Dealul Tătăreştilor /Dâmbul tătarilor”^. A special case were the Early Suciu de Sus finds in the south-eastern Slovakia: Hnojné, Lastovce, Ruská, Vel'ké Raskovce and a part of the graves from Zemplinske Kopcany. They had a special regional aspect, in what concerns vessel shapes and decorating procedures. Characteristic of the finds in that area was the absence of grooved pottery, which was characteristic of the entire area of the Suciu de Sus archaeological culture, and the small number of motifs made by incision, as well as cups, jars and footed tureens54. The Suciu de Sus sites were found in the south-eastern Slovakia, along the river valleys Lotarica, Laborec, Topl'a, Ondava and Bodrog55, in the south-western Ukraine (Transcarpathian Ukraine). They were situated between the river Ung (Uj), in the north and Tisza River in the south. In the east, they spread until the Carpathians56, in the north-east of Hungary they spread 41 PI.65/5. 42 PI. 19/6; 33/6. 43 PI. 2/2, 8; 11/6; 20/1-2; 27/8; 34/3; 36/6-7; 37/1, 3; 52/8; 53/8; 60/1-2; 65/10; 66/1, 4. 44 PI.8/1; 17/8; 27/8; 35/3-4; 36/6-7; 37/3; 44/1; 55/8; 69/5. 45 PI.22/9; 29/9. 46 PI.9/5; 22/3; 24/2; 34/2; 37/1-2. 47 PI.5/6; 8/2; 19/7; 49/4. 48 PI. 33/8; 66/4. 49 PI.37/4. 50 Pl. 11/8; 22/9; 23/7; 39/4-5; 54/8. 51 Pl. 11/3; 16/4; 20/4; 24/4-5; 25/13; 33/6; 49/1,3; 58/7. 52 PI. 19/10; 28/3; 38/2; 66/3. 53 For bibliographical data go to the catalogue of the Suciu de Sus I finds. 54 Demeterová 1984, 11-70; Furmánek, Veliacik, Vladár 1999, 100-101, fig.42-43. 55 For discoveries made in Slovacia: Budinsky-Kricka 1977, 65-81; Demeterová 1984, 11-70; Demeterová 1987, 305-315; Demeterová 1989, 168-181; Furmánek, Veliacik, Vladár 1999; Furmánek, Vladár 2001, 83- 104. 5h For discoveries made in the Transcarpathian Ukraine: Zatlukál J., Zatlukál E. 1937; Potuchniak 1958; Balaguri 1967, 79-83; Balaguri 1968, 149-152; Balaguri 1969a, 61-68; Balaguri 1969b, 147-159; Balaguri 1971, 373-385; Balaguri 1974, 25-47; Balaguri 1975, 261-282; Balaguri 1976, 240-256; Balaguri 1985, 473-481; Balaguri 1986, 169-175; Balaguri 1988, 9-17; Balaguri 1990a, 95-99; Balaguri 1990b, 121-122; Kobal’ 1997; Balaguri 2001,243-288; Kobal’ 2007, 538-599. 18
