Gilded silver cup with two handles, ca. 2300–2000


Gilded silver cup with two handles, Latter part of the Early Bronze Age, ca. 2300–2000 , Anatolian, Silver, gold foil, H. 3 3/16 in. ( cm), Gold and Silver, This vase, along with . are said to have been found together, are best paralleled by pieces found by Heinrich Schliemann at Troy in a stratigraphic level know as Troy II. The wealth of jewelry and objects from the latest phase, Troy IIg, led Schliemann to believe that he had found the city described by Homer


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