Beaker

Although this rimless beaker appears ordinary enough, it is one of a relatively small group of this design to have survived. Two other similar vessels used as altar reliquaries were found in chapels, and archeologists uncovered another one buried in a marketplace. This well-preserved glass was unearthed in a medieval sewer, along with numerous other glass vessels and household objects in ceramic, wood, and leather. The objects all seem to have been made in the first half of the 1400s. Because the few examples of this type of beaker have been found at widely separated sites, production cannot be pinpointed to a specific factory or region.