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Glass cup
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Colorless with pale greenish tinge.Uneven, knocked-off rim; slightly bulging collar below rim; vertical sides, rounded at base; almost flat bottom.One horizontal wheel-cut groove on collar; twelve vertical indents in sides.Intact; pinprick bubbles; slight pitting, but most of surfaces covered with creamy, enamel-like weathering with brilliant iridescence.
From Cyprus, said to be from a tomb at Idalion (modern Dali)
Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5685, p. 512.
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