jug
- Museum number
- 1868,1228.634
- Description
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Pottery slender jug with damaged rim and handle missing. It has a pointed base. Both surfaces are polished: external surface is black-brown and glossy, internal surface is brown-grey. Previously poorly restored.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 37 millimetres (mouth)
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Height: 90 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Orlinska 2001
Findspot: Żary miasto (Lausch); 'Sorau'; "river Lausch/from the Lausch near Sorau" województwo Zielona Góra; Poland.
References: Klemm J. G., undated. ‘Catalog der culturhistorischen Sammlung des verstorbenen Hofrath Dr. Gustav Klemm in Dresden Königsbrücker Strasse Nr. 84. Einleitung’, Dresden, VI, 15 (1-5: ‘Gebrannter Thon. altgermanisch: complette Urnen’); Klemm, J. G., 1868b. A. ‘Germanische Alterthümer, British Museum, London (unpublished manuscript) nos 696, 701, 704-705 (1, 3, 4-5: ‘Sorau’), 700 (2: cited in error as ‘Schweinitz’); Klemm, G., 1836, ‘Handbuch der germanischen Alterthumskunde’, Dresden, 173, pl. 12.1 (3), 178, pl. 12.25 (5); Wagener, S.Ch., 1842, ‘Handbuch der vorzüglichsten, in Deutschland entdeckten Alterthümer aus heidnischer Zeit’, Weimar, 625-6, pl. 114.1141 (5: ‘Sorau’).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1868,1228.634
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.54