chalice
- Museum number
- 1914,0415.1
- Description
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Chalice; silver; large deep bowl; knopped stem and trumpet-shaped foot; inscribed below rim.
- Production date
- 600-650 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 92 millimetres (foot rim)
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Diameter: 186 millimetres
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Height: 189 millimetres
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Weight: 642.80 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G41/dc13)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012-2013 11 Nov-25 Aug, USA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tradition Transformed: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
2012 Mar-Jul, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Treasures of the World’s Cultures
2010 26 Feb-13 Jun, Germany, Bonn, Kunst and Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Byzantium: Splendour and Daily Life
1986 17 Apr-17 Aug, USA, Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, Silver Treasure from Early Byzantium
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Acquisition notes
- Found in northern Syria, apparently at Hama as part of the Kaper Koraon treasure. Seen in Aleppo or Beirut in 1910.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1914,0415.1
