- Museum number
- 1887,0108.2
- Description
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Glass drinking-horn; powder blue; applied self-coloured lattice work around neck; horizontal white trailing around body extending to pointed tip; cut-off rim.
- Production date
- 6thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Length: 23 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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The Sutri grave-group is the subject of the Tesi di Laurea submitted by Simona Ventura, "Una tomba femmenile altomedievale: il problema dei corredi femminili nel VI secolo allegati" (Turin University, 1993-4).
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Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
1887,0108.2 to 9 said to be from Sutri, prov. Viterbo, Italy, from a grave excavated in March, 1878, at the entrance to a vineyard in the Via dei Condotti, by Giuseppe Picchiorri. Not all of the gravegoods were acquired by the Museum, including a silver coin of Tiberius II (AD 578-82), a gold pin, gold beads and a brooch, a bronze coin and glass beads. Von Jenny, Kühn and Fremersdorf (below) give wrong provenance.
Published (the group):
FIORELLI G. 1878. Notizie degli Scavi. Maggio, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 1878, Rome, pp. 159-60
HARDEN D.B. 1975. Some Lombard Glasses of the 6th and 7th Centuries, Medieval Glass in the Balkans (Vth-XVth c), Proceedings of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, pp. 11-13, 27-8, pls. I and II
(the horn):
DILLON E. 1907. Glass. London, pp. 109-10
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, pp. 154-5, figs. 192c and f
VON JENNY W.A. 1940. Die Kunst der Germanen im frühen Mittelalter. Berlin, pp. 26, 70 no. 79, pl. 79 left
KÜHN H. 1940. Die germanischen Bügelfibeln der Völkerwanderungszeit in der Rheinprovinz, 2 vols. Bonn (reprinted 1965), p. 255, pl. 130:2
VON PFEFFER W. 1952. Zur Typologie merowingerzeitlicher Gläser mit Fadenverzierung, Festschrift des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums in Mainz zur Feier seines hundertjährigen Bestehens 1952, 3 vols, II, Mainz, pp. 151, 160
EVISON V.I. 1955. Anglo-Saxon Finds near Rainham, Essex, with a Study of Glass Drinking-horns, Archaeologia XCVI, London, pp. 174 no. 23, 187 8, 190, pl. LXIX:c and f, figs. 12 map, 8 no. 4
FREMERSDORF F. 1955. Zu dem blauen Glasbecher aus dem Reihengräberfeld von Pfahlheim (Kr. Ellwangen) im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Kölner Jahrbuch für Vor- und Frühgeschichte I, Cologne, pp. 33 4, fig. 2
HARDEN D.B. 1956. Glass Vessels in Britain and Ireland, A.D. 400-1000, in D.B. Harden (ed) Dark Age Britain. Studies Presented to E.T. Leeds, London, p. 140 note 33
HARDEN D.B. et al. 1968. Masterpieces of Glass. London, p. 96 no. 133, pl. 133
HARDEN D.B. 1971. Ancient Glass, III: Post-Roman, Arch J CXXVIII, London, pp. 85, 113-14, pl. VII:A centre
EVISON V.I. 1975. Germanic Glass Drinking Horns, Journal of Glass Studies XVII, Corning New York, p. 87 no. 51
- Location
- On display (G41/dc18/sB)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2000 17 Jun-10 Dec, Italy, Brescia, Santa Giulia Museo della Città, The Future of the Longobards - Italy during the construction of Charlemagne’s Europe
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1887,0108.2
