Tales from the store: where in the world... (part 3)

Welcome back to my (apparently never ending) story of a quest of a documentation assistant seeking collections management record glory.   To catch up, just have a check back to previous posts (the brief summary is: I am trying to find out more information about objects - the other posts tell it better).

Now I was in a position where I could document the objects with matching labels - I knew they were from Jasovská Cave, Slovakia and I could even identify which pits they were from.  Some further research also revealed that the name used by Tivadar Kormos (the archaeologist) - Takács Menyhért cave - was because he had named the cave after a local monk and academic.

However, many of the objects in the box did not have labels.  My instincts suggested many of these objects were probably from the same site.  I just needed to prove it.

Pottery cup, with no provenance until...

Fortunately, I had everything I needed to just that - and my instincts were soon proved to be correct.

I looked at a pottery vessel from the box.  It had no label.  There was nothing to say or show where it was from, who had excavated it or when it was excavated.  I plunged into the publication, scrolling through the pages certain that I could right this wrong and give this object its story back.

Figure 8 in the publication
THE SAME CUP!

There it was.  Illustrated in the publication, with a photograph.  I looked from the pot to the image, and back again.  It was definitely the same one.  The caption, when translated, gave the exact pit the vessel had been excavated from.  It doesn't get better than this for a documentation assistant - I was so emotional, I could feel the tears welling up!

I'd managed to find an object which previously had no site, no date, no excavation history and pinpoint down that it had been dug in 1916 by Tivadar Kormos from Jasovská Cave, Slovakia.

You'd think that would be the end of the tale, however this collection had even more mysteries to unfold...