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Lycurgus Cup

4th-century Roman cup with unusual properties
Thing cage_cup Q3000066

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
cage cup, work of art[3]
Inception
350[16]
Owned by
British Museum[4]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Location
London[15]
Collection
British Museum[13]
Depicts
Lycurgus of Thrace, leaf, Dionysus, Ambrosia, Panthera[6][7][8][9][10]
Inventory number
1958,1202.1[14]
Made from material
dichroic glass, silver[11][12]
Named after
Lycurgus of Thrace[5]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Applied arts/Drinking vessels[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lycurgus Cup cs Lykurgův pohár de Lykurg-Becher de Lykurgosbecher de Lykurgos-Becher de Lykurgusbecher de Lykurgus-Becher de Lykurgbecher es Copa de Licurgo fr Coupe de lycurgue fr Coupe de Lycurgue fr Coupe De Lycurgue hu Lükurgosz-kehely it Coppa di Licurgo ja リュクルゴスの聖杯 ko 리쿠르고스 컵 pl Puchar Likurga ru Кубок Ликурга ru Ликургов кубок sv Lykurgos bägare
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2014001681
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Front of 4th century CE Roman Lycurgus Cup, British Museum (1958,1202.1).jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
00244643n
Described at URL
www.britishmuseum.org, www.britishmuseum.org
FAST ID
1911074
Freebase ID
/m/02r3r_4
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007586171605171

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🔗 Connections
Depicts 5
leaf, Dionysus, Panthera, Lycurgus of Thrace, Ambrosia
Instance of 2
work of art, cage cup
Made from material 2
silver, dichroic glass
Collection 1
British Museum
Location 1
London
Named after 1
Lycurgus of Thrace
Owned by 1
British Museum
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
British Museum
← Depicted by 1
Lycurgus of Thrace
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Summary

Lycurgus Cup is a cage cup[1].

Related Entities

British Museum London

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/50895|batch #50895]]: because of P276"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → London
    Made from material → dichroic glass, silver
    Named after → —
    Named after → Lycurgus of Thrace
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007586171605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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