Une corne a boire en verre, de << type lombard >>, aux Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles/A Glass Drinking Horn, of "Lombardic Type," in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

A fortunate set of circumstances led to the acquisition in 2010 of a complete drinking horn from the Merovingian period by the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels (Inv. no. B005829-001). The horn, which is very large and has a simple shape, was discovered during old excavations, and it may have come from the cemetery of the Brussels borough of Anderlecht. It is translucent olive-yellow, heightened by bluish green latticework and three arches of the same color. The horn is typologically related to Lombardic drinking horns with latticework, but there are some distinct differences. Nevertheless, the vessel may have been produced locally. The authors date the object to the sixth or early seventh century. Chemical analysis of the bluish green glass identified a natron soda-lime composition, which confirms that the horn was produced in antiquity. (Author abstract)