Fluorspar is cup that cheers for Ede
Funded by the Friends of the British Museum, the Caryatid Fund and the National Art Collections Fund, the British Museum has acquired an extremely rare Roman fluorspar cup from the 1st century AD. The total cost of the antiquity, bought from a leading London dealer, was £150,000.
The purple and green-veined cup is thought to have been discovered in a Roman tomb on the Turco-Syri…