chalice

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Object Type
Museum number: 1914,0415.1
Description: Chalice; silver; large deep bowl; knopped stem and trumpet-shaped foot; inscribed below rim.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 600-650 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Syria (?); Made in: Antioch
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Hama
Materials
Dimensions: Diameter: 92 millimetres (foot rim); Diameter: 186 millimetres; Height: 189 millimetres; Weight: 642.80 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Buckton 1994 / Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections (95); Dalton 1921 / A Guide to the early Christian and Byzantine antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (p. 108, 110); Kent & Painter 1977 / Wealth of the Roman World. Gold and Silver, AD 300-700 (155); Mundell Mango 1986 / Silver from Early Byzantium: the Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures (29); Daim 2010 / Byzanz: Prach und Alltag (29)
Location: On display (G41/dc13)
Exhibition history: 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
Associated names: Named in inscription: Sergios; Named in inscription: John
Acquisition name
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
Conservation: Treatment: 02 Jan 2014; Treatment: 19 Jan 2012

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