“disguised with jewels? Plausible? what would there reason for DISGUISING a cup have been It would have been far FAR easier to HIDE it....Id think”
Your statement is a non-sequitur, much like your Roman alphabet statements. Are you intentionally dissembling?
hardly
why disguise a cup?
is there some reason to assume that anyone would have claimed it to be anything out of the ordinary had it been displayed as is?
Hiding it by decorating it seems a oddly circuitous.