Cups in Antiquity

Image Gallery

by Mark Cartwright
published on 24 July 2020

Subscribe to topic Subscribe to author

Levantine Amber Glass Wine Cup

by Allard Pierson Museum
published on 15 February 2020

Subscribe to topic Subscribe to author

Levantine Amber Glass Wine Cup — View Full-Size Image

This beautiful amber-colored glass wine cup (diam. ca. 15 cm), with its fine horizontal grain on the edge, is an early example of moulded glass produce from the Levant (ca. 100 BCE - 100 CE; APM inv. no. 14.023). It had to be placed in a (wooden) foot as the rounded bottom makes it unstable on the table.

Image courtesy of the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.

« Previous Image Next Image »

Images in this Gallery

License & Copyright

Original image by Allard Pierson Museum. Uploaded by Branko van Oppen, published on 15 February 2020. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.