- Though it measures just 15.9cm by 13.2cm, the Lycurgus Cup has been described as the most spectacular glass of its period. Housed in the British Museum...
- Lycurgus Cup, Roman, 4th century AD, British Museum, 1958.1202.1. On loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.
- The Lycurgus Cup has been housed in the British Museum since 1958. Ancient nanotechnology that works But how does it work?
- One of the most impressive glass-made objects on display at the British Museum is the luxurious Roman cage cup known as the Lycurgus Cup.
- In the 1950s, the British Museum came into possession an ancient glass chalice called the Lycurgus Cup, so named for its depiction of Dionysus’s triumph over...
- Yesterday, I went to the British Museum for the first time — how had I never been before? And I was able to see for myself the astonishing Lycurgus Cup.
- Until the Lycurgus Cup was acquired by the British Museum in the 1950’s (from the Rothschilds, meaning “red shield”), scientists had not examined it.
- La Cup of Lycurgus, was acquired by British Museum years' 50. ... Source images: British Museum.
- The Lycurgus Cup, an ancient Roman feat of pioneering nanotechnology in the fourth century exhibited at the British Museum.
- ...Institute of Chicago’s new Greek, Roman, and Byzantine galleries, we met the Lycurgus Cup on temporary loan to the Art Institute from the British Museum.