jug
- Museum number
- 1868,1228.90
- Description
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Pottery jug, gently profiled, with raised handle edges. There are shallow, circumferential grooves on neck base at lower end of handle and on body, are four symmetrically spaced groups of vertical grooves. Both surfaces are black and brick red-brown, polished, external surface is crazed in places.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 60 - 65 millimetres (mouth)
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Diameter: 40 millimetres (base)
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Height: 103 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); Grave.
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 (32: ‘Gebrannter Than, altgermanisch: Fragmente’); VI, 16 (6-31, 33-34: ‘Gebrannter Than, altgermanisch: complette Urnen’); Klemm, J. G., 1868b. A. ‘Germanische Alterthümer, British Museum, London (unpublished manuscript) nos 1089 (6: '[...] filled with bones'), 1090-1109 (7-26), 1110 (27: incorrectly 'deep cup with neck [...]'), 1111 (28), 1112 (29: '[...] filled with bones'), 1113, 1115-1117(31, 32-34).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1868,1228.90
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.7121