Name: Glass cup
Description: Cup with thin walls whose form was obtained by constraining the area around the base. The base is circular, conical in shape, and the rim is straight and rounded.
Material: Yellow-brown glass.
Technique: Manufactured by blowing into a closed mould; relief decoration - veins rising from base to edge, often forming spirals.
Provenance: Mértola’s Castle (1996).
Location: Museum of Mértola - Islamic Art.
Chronology: 11th century.
Retrieved from:
RAFAEL, Lígia; PALMA, Maria de Fátima (2010): “Os Vidros Islâmicos de Mértola (Séc. XI-XIII): Técnicas decorativas”, in Arqueologia Medieval nº11, Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, Mértola, pp.69-77.
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