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Cage Cup
vas diatretum
Lost Art-ID
586452
Artist / Creator
Title
Cage Cup
Additional title
vas diatretum
Dating
301/350 (n. Chr.)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Glass
Height
15.00 cm
Diameter
21.00 cm
Inventory number
R 6110
Description
Constantinian period cage cup. Body restored.
Provenance
Found in 1869 in Hohen-Sülzen near Worms in a late-Roman sacrophagus; body broken, parts taken to Bonn to the Verein der Altertumsfreunde Rheinland as well as to the Altertumsmuseum Mainz (today the Landesmuseum Mainz); 1936 Bonn fragments from the Mainz Museum of Antiquities acquired by barter and reconstructed. Now complete, the object has become the most valuable of the Mainz Roman collection.
1939 relocation to Erbach in the Odenwald; 1945 Central Collecting Point Wiesbaden. Saw there in 1945/1946 during a visit by the then director of the Museum; whereabouts unknown since then.
Storage site
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Contact
Landesmuseum Mainz
55116 Mainz
Germany
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(06131) 28570
Fax
(0631) 285757
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