bell beaker
- Museum number
- 1905,0520.40
- Description
-
Glass bell beaker: type as no 38; iridescent, translucent pale green-blue; lop-sided, with squat bowl sharply carinated; basal knob; conical neck; flaring, slightly expanded mouth with narrow band of self-coloured trailing beneath rim; repaired, but parts of bowl missing.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 9.80 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. 4
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1905,0520.40