CUP WITH HANDLES

Budapest, XVII. District, Csabai út 50. Grave finding.

The cups with two handles have played a great role in the identification of the time-sequences of the Middle Copper Age in Hungary. Until the 1950s, the cups were thought to originate in Eastern-Europe, only later did they discover the southern connections. We know today that similar cups were found in great quantities in the Balkan cultures of the Copper Age (Eneolithic). Thus the origin of the cups became uncertain, had they spread from one single starting point, and were they not general products of everyday customs. The pot, decorated with a bunch of horizontal and parallel lines on the neck and below the rim, was an accessory of burials, but pieces found on settlements prove that they were also important in everyday life.

Irodalom:

Bognár-Kutzián Ida: Über südliche Beziehungen der ungarischen Hoch­kup­ferzeit. ActaArchHung 9 (1958) 155-190