cup
- Museum number
- 1868,1228.75
- Description
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Pottery rounded cup with handle. There is a shallow vertical indentation on handle. On body there are irregular shallow grooves interrupted by lower end of handle and groups of alternating opposed diagonal grooves and vertical filled chevrons. Both surfaces are polished: external surface is brown-speckled black, metallic glossy, internal surface is black, metallic glossy, lower body is brown-grey. Abraded by use.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 90 - 96 millimetres (mouth)
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Diameter: 27 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).
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 A. ‘Germanische Alterthümer, British Museum, London (unpublished manuscript) nos 1085-1086 (1-2).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
- 1868,1228.75
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.7021