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A while ago I had a reproduction of a Roman cup,(now lost!) about 12cm high, fine pottery but I think the original was said to have been silver. Around the outside it was decorated with skeleton figures.
Anyone know where there are any images of the original or even if there are any copies being made?
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I believe the cup is silver, the picture I have is in a book at work RRRRRR so will not be able to get until next week
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Thanks Tony,
I did find one on a seach, that example was the one in the Louvre but it is larger than the one I'm looking for, I don't know if this is the one you're thinking of?
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Marcvs I dont think it is the same cup .It is in a book called
Treasures Of Rome, great book hence I keep this one at work for
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Thanks jef,
That was the same one that I had, I'm going to see if I can get any images of the original in silver. I did also like the one in the Louvre that I found when I googled Roman silver cup, so I'm after any images that I can get.
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Lvcivs thats the one
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Chances are that there is an older version in gold in the Palermo Museum in Sicily. Attributed to Epikurian philosophers.
If any one has a pic it would be great.
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The cup that Forum Traiani sell in clay is the type I had but I can find no images of that in silver. All the images from the Boscoreale silver finds have the skeleton cup which is now in the Louvre. Is the clay version just a composite 'inspired' by the silver one?
I do intend to ask Forum Traiani, I just wondered if anyone here knew.
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Yes it would be great to find more images of the pieces.
I've done some searching for images of silverware but most seem to be single view pictures from museums. Anyone know of any books which have decent sets of images?
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there are two Skeleton Cups, one that was part of a treasure found in Boscoreale and now in the Louvre museum, the other in fine glazed ceramic and its in the collection of the Staatl. Museum Berlin
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Thanks,
Anyone got a link for the museum, i've had a search and i can't figure out how to get onto an exhibits page for Staatl.?
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this is the only link I have
[url:yo9ysc72]http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=de&objectId=3&n=1&r=3[/url]
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