Bavarian drinking vessel from the Early Middle Ages
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AR2694
| Object: |
Bavarian beaker from the Early Middle Ages
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| Material: |
Clay with black glaze.
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| Period: |
End of 6th cent. AD to 7th cent. AD. Early Middle Ages. |
| Description: |
Beaker with flat base and rim directed outwards. The surface is decorated by a stamped geometric pattern of rhombs. This piece is drinking vessel from the early Bavarians or Baiuvarii.
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| Dimensions: |
93mm height, c. 105mm diameter.
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| Condition: |
Great condition. Professionally restored from original material with a few additions. With an old note inscribed "Ehring, Ldkr. Regensburg /Opf." and a sticker inscribed "Ehring".
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2019 from the German Rehorik family collection. The collection was built in the 1960ies and 1970ies by Hugo Rehorik. It consists entirely of archeological finds from the region around Regensburg in Germany. This piece was found in Ehring in the township of Riekofen near Regensburg. Hugo Rehorik (1905-1979) was working in the Regensburg area as an voluntary archeologist, mostly together with Hans-Jürgen Werner (1941-1997) and with the help of Gerhard and Robert Pleyer. The team supported the Landesamt für Denkmalschutz (state department of cultural heritage preservation) with the recovery of artefacts. This support was of great importance because the 1960ies saw the advent of deep plowing in Germany. Artefacts in the ground needed to be saved from destruction by the new agricultural machines quickly. The state archeologists praised this cooperation highly. It is a nice example of volunteers and professionals working together to preserve our cultural heritage. And also a role model urgently needed for today's situation in archeology. The finds were documented and examined according to scientific standards. Intricate restorations were performed by Heinz Rademacher (1929-1992) who worked for the städtische Museum Regensburg (city museum of Regensburg). Most pieces were then given to museums, namely the Historische Museum in Regensburg (Regensburg historical museum), the Naturkundemuseum Regensburg (Regensburg natural history museum) and the archäologische Staatssammlung in München (archeological state collection of Munich). Individual pieces have been split among the volunteers with the consent of the state archeologists. This way the Rehorik collection came into existence. |
| References: |
Cf. K. Schmotz, Vorträge des 28. Niederbayrischen Archäologentages, front page picture. Cf. H. T. Fischer, Archäologische Ausgrabungen und Funde in der Oberpfalz 1980/1981, S. 252, Nr. 1 (also from Riekofen like this beaker). Cf. J. Reitingers, Oberösterreich in Ur- und Frühgeschichtlicher Zeit (1969), p. 370. The two beakers shown there are from a 1940ies excavation in Linz-Linzlau, Austria. A Bavarian burial ground was found and dated to around 630 AD by a Byzantine coin from a grave. The place was at the Eastern border of Bavaria at that time (cf. H. Kunstmann, Die historischen Hintergründe der Nibelunge nôt, S. 31). We thank Mr. A. from Austria for giving this important hint to dating the vessel shown here. |
| Literature on the Rehorik collection: |
S. Kuchlmayr, Vom Tertiär zur Römerzeit: Hugo Rehorik u. seine Funde, in Regensburger illustriertes Stadtmagazin no. 3 / 5 (1979), pages 14f. A. Stroh, Bericht der vorgeschichtlichen Abteilung des Museums Regensburg (1965), mentions Hugo Rehorik's relation to numerous finds and research results; Stroh is praising Rehorik's contributions as an amateur archaeologist. F. D. Davis, Neue bandkeramische Gräber von Mangolding (1968), the book deals among other topics with an excavation in which Hugo Rehorik took part in. H. T. Fischer, Archäologische Ausgrabungen und Funde in der Oberpfalz (1982) mentions Hugo Rehorik and explains how thankful the local archaeologist are for their volunteers. T. Fischer, Im memoriam Hans-Jürgen Werner, in Acta Albertina Ratisbonesia 50/2, pages 231ff (1997), the memorandum includes a very good summary of the cooperation with Hugo Rehorik and the situation and working methods in the 1960ies and 1970ies. |
| Authenticity: |
We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every artefact, all items are subject to our lifetime return policy on authenticity.
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