CUP WITH GROOVED DECORATION

Budapest, Tabán

This is a cup with a slightly S curved handle. Its side and partly its bottom is richly decorated with furrows. The grooves were filled with lime and they picture inverted triangles. This type of pottery is typical of and gave its name to the second half of the Middle Copper Age. The appearance of this new civilisation, that followed the Ludanice culture, meant a basic change compared to earlier cultures. According to the data from excavations, the people, with a much more vivid lifestyle, established a less developed culture in the Carpathian basin than their ancestors. However at the end of its life-span this group, influenced by new peoples coming from the south, went through a great transformation, and eventually it became one of the basic cultural components of the Late Copper Age.

Literature

Kalicz, Nándor: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kupferzeit im ungarischen Transdanubien. In: J. Lichardus (Hrsg.): Die Kupferzeit als historische Epoche. Symposium Saar­brücken und Otzenhausen 6.-13.11.1988. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Alter­tums­kunde. Bonn 1991. 347-387.