cup
- Museum number
- 1868,1228.115
- Description
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Pottery hemispherical cup with handle. Handle edges are slightly raised. Both surfaces are polished: external surface is black and brown, cracked in places, internal surface is black. Slightly burnt.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 140 - 150 millimetres (mouth)
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Diameter: 82 millimetres (base)
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Height: 66 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Orlinska 2001
Findspot: Spittwitz; ‘Spittwitz’; Gemeinde Göda, Landkreis Bautzen; Sachsen.
Cemetery (perhaps mentioned by Buck, D.-W., 1979, ‘Die Billendorfer Gruppe. 2: Text’, Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Urund Frühgeschichte, Potsdam, 13, Berlin, 95, 178, no. 97).
"1862 from H. Schmalz".
References: Klemm J. G., undated. ‘Catalog der culturhistorischen Sammlung des verstorbenen Hofrath Dr. Gustav Klemm in Dresden Königsbrücker Strasse Nr. 84. Einleitung’, Dresden, VI, 16 (1-2: ‘Gebrannter Thon. altgermanisch: complette Urnen’); Klemm, J. G., 1868b. A. ‘Germanische Alterthümer, British Museum, London (unpublished manuscript) nos 1085-1086 (1-2).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1868,1228.115
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.7020