http://www.grailcode.com/archives/a-cheap-cup-maybe-not The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/a-cheap-cup-maybe-not#comment-16146 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:23:04 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/a-cheap-cup-maybe-not#comment-16146 [...] MTV [...] […] MTV […]

]]> http://www.grailcode.com/archives/a-cheap-cup-maybe-not#comment-11831 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:51:33 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/a-cheap-cup-maybe-not#comment-11831 [...] Speaking of art, the Carnegie Museum of Art has added a new collection search to its site. With it, I was able to find pictures of two of the Roman glass cups I’ve admired every time I walked past. One of them comes from the first century A.D.: it’s a solid deep red color. The other, from the previous century, is cast in beautiful swirling patterns of green, yellow, blue, and red. If the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper was glass, it might well have looked like either one of these. [...] […] Speaking of art, the Carnegie Museum of Art has added a new collection search to its site. With it, I was able to find pictures of two of the Roman glass cups I’ve admired every time I walked past. One of them comes from the first century A.D.: it’s a solid deep red color. The other, from the previous century, is cast in beautiful swirling patterns of green, yellow, blue, and red. If the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper was glass, it might well have looked like either one of these. […]

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