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Cup of Troia, s. I-II, Advice, Grândola, Alentejo

2023 Preventive Conservation

Advice on preventive conservation for the exposure of the Cup of Troia in silver alloy with gold applications, exhumed in Troia (1814), inside a leaded cinerar urn, reproducing a representation of xenia, hospitality and courtesy scene, with engraved and chiselled figurative motifs.
(https://nationalgeographic.sapo.pt/ciencia/actualidade/1970-marcelo-taca-perdida)

> P. Valério, M.F. Araújo. 2018. Caracterização do Vaso de Tróia - relatório preliminar (Characterisation of the Cup of Troia- preliminary report), Nuclear Science and Technology Centre, Higher Technical Institute, University of Lisboa.
> Carta e parecer sobre a Taça (Letter and Advice on the Cup), Historic Archive, Museum-Library of the House of Bragança, FCB-MBCB, AH, NNG 3462/8.

Acknowledgements House of Bragança Foundation

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