cup
- Museum number
- 1868,1228.92
- Description
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Gently profiled pottery cup with one handle, which is missing. On neck base there is a wide shallow circumferential groove ornament interrupted by handle and on belly is band of diagonal grooves, two outermost on one side inclined in opposite direction. Both surfaces are polished: external surface is brick red-black and crazed, internal surface is black. Cup is slightly burnt and rim is damaged.
- Dimensions
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Height: 63 - 69 millimetres
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Diameter: 26 millimetres (base)
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Diameter: 57 millimetres (mouth)
- 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 A. ‘Germanische Alterthümer, British Museum, London (unpublished manuscript) nos 1089 (6: '[...]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
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1868,1228.92
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.7133