Vol. 3 No. 10 (2022)
Articles

Special Ceramic Figurines from the Late Bronze Age Settlement of Baks-Temetőpart

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  • Polett Kósa
Polett Kósa
Szent Isván Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2022.93

Published 2023-03-31

Keywords

  • Late Bronze Age (Ha A2-Ha B1), Carpathian Basin, Gáva culture, special clay figurines

How to Cite

Kósa, P. (2023). Special Ceramic Figurines from the Late Bronze Age Settlement of Baks-Temetőpart. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(10), 93–128. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2022.93

Abstract

A planned excavation was conducted at the Late Bronze Age settlement of Baks-Temetőpart (Csongrád–Csanád County, Hungary) in 2007 by Gábor V. Szabó with archaeologists and students of the Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Archaeological Sciences (Budapest). A previously known but unexcavated, rather large, and intensive settlement was researched during the short campaign. More than 4,000 ceramic objects were discovered in different pits, with 71 special ceramic objects among them. This article evaluates these anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, wagon- and wheel models, sun discs, and miniature vessels that can give us some insight into the beliefs and ways of artistic expression of the classical Gáva pottery style community of Baks-Temetőpart.

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