bell beaker
- Museum number
- 1905,0520.38
- Description
-
Glass bell beaker: translucent pale olive green; squat bowl sharply carinated; basal knob; conical neck; flaring mouth; band of self-coloured trailing beneath rim; repaired, but some sherds missing.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 10.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Herpes, comm. Courbillac, c. Rouillac, arr. Angoulême, dép. Charente, France (based upon an original drawing in the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St. Germain en Laye, signed 'Philippe Delamain à Jarnac', which originally accompanied an MS letter of 14.6.1889 from Delamain to Bertrand, now lost, but published as DELAMAIN P. 1889.)
Published:
DELAMAIN P. 1889. Le cimetière mérovingien d'Herpes. Nouvelles Archéologiques et Correspondance, Revue Archéologique 3rd series XIV, Paris, 162-6, pp. 163-4, no. 3
DELAMAIN P. 1891. Les sépultures barbares d'Herpes, Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de la Charente 6th series I, Angoulême, p. 198 no. 131
DELAMAIN P. 1892. Le Cimetière d'Herpes (Fouilles et Collection Ph. Delamain), Soc Arch et Hist de la Charente, Angoulême, p. 17, pl. XXII:131
GUILHOU COLL. 1905. Catalogue des Objets Antiques et du Moyen Age --- provenant de la collection de M. Guilhou, et dont la vente aura lieu à Paris du jeudi 16 au samedi 18 Mars. Paris, p. 38, lot 263
CABROL F. and LECLERCQ H. 1925. Herpes, Dictionnaire d'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie VI part 2, col. 2359 fig. 5707 no. 5 (where incorrect pl. ref. to Delamain 1892)
LASKO P. 1965. Prelude to Empire. The Frankish Kingdom from the Merovingians to Pepin, in D. Talbot Rice (ed) The Dark Ages, London, pp. 97-218, pl. 3 centre, reproduced in LASKO P. 1971. The Kingdom of the Franks. North-West Europe before Charlemagne. London, pl. 30
MAURIN L. 1968. La cité de Saintes de la paix romaine à la paix franque - enquête archéologique, unpublished thesis at L'Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie. Paris, cat. no. 287
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1905,0520.38
