In the southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain, at Orosháza, excavations were carried out on both sides of a former river between 2004 and 2006. In this study we focus on the ceramic material of the Árpádian Age settlement, in particular ceramic bottles, which are common here but at other Árpádian Age settlements appear rarely. The stylistic features of bottles and their analogies indicate that the community that lived here had a complex social network not only within the Hungarian Kingdom but also in the Balkans in the 12th and 13th centuries.

The site itself is also unique: pig bones are completely absent in the animal bone assemblage, meanwhile in other Árpádian Age settlements pig bones are common. Moreover, burials have special rites, and graves have a sidewall niche where the dead were placed oriented to the south. These features, together with a known place name of the area called ‘Böszörményestelek’ (~parcel of Ishmaelites), indicate that a Muslim community lived here in the 12-13th centuries.

The aim of this study is to analyse ceramic bottles and compare their raw materials with other vessel types. To assess the provenance of the bottles, we also compare their raw materials with Avar vessels. In order to better understand ceramic production and provenance, microscopic fabric- and geochemical analyses (ICP-OES, ICP-MS) were applied.

Bottles, just as other vessel types, were made from several raw materials. The results suggest that the raw materials of bottles made from a so called ‘white clay’ have different provenance from the other bottles, they are imports, while the raw materials of other bottles also show variability indicating different provenance. At the same time, the raw materials of some of the bottles even correlate with other, assumedly locally made vessels and even with Avar vessels. The utilization of multiple interdisciplinary methods highlights the complex relationships and social networks of this Muslim community in a large area.

在匈牙利大平原南部的奥罗沙萨，2004 年至 2006 年间，在一条原河流的两岸进行了挖掘。在这项研究中，我们重点研究了阿尔帕迪亚时代聚居地的陶瓷材料，尤其是陶瓷瓶，在这里很常见，但在其他阿帕迪亚时代的定居点很少出现。瓶子的风格特征及其类比表明，居住在这里的社区不仅在匈牙利王国内，而且在 12 和 13 世纪的巴尔干地区都拥有复杂的社交网络。

该遗址本身也很独特：动物骨骼组合中完全没有猪骨，同时在其他阿帕迪亚时代的定居点中，猪骨很常见。此外，墓葬有特殊的仪式，坟墓有一个壁龛，死者朝南放置。这些特征，连同该地区已知的地名“Böszörményestelek”（~以实玛利人的地块），表明穆斯林社区在 12-13 世纪居住在这里。

本研究的目的是分析陶瓷瓶并将其原材料与其他容器类型进行比较。为了评估瓶子的来源，我们还将它们的原材料与 Avar 容器进行了比较。为了更好地了解陶瓷的生产和来源，应用了微观织物和地球化学分析（ICP-OES、ICP-MS）。

瓶子，就像其他容器类型一样，由多种原材料制成。结果表明，由所谓的“白土”制成的瓶子的原材料与其他瓶子的来源不同，它们是进口的，而其他瓶子的原材料也表现出不同的来源。同时，一些瓶子的原材料甚至与其他假设是本地制造的容器甚至与 Avar 容器相关。多种跨学科方法的使用在大范围内突出了这个穆斯林社区的复杂关系和社会网络。