This glass stein is called a Tübinger Igel (porcupine from Tübingen) noted for being favored by German students,
especially those from the student society Igel formed at the University of Tübingen in 1871. The lid inscriptions
are student related and the following excerpt regarding the "paragraph 11" symbol is taken from the SCI
website reading room:
The beer code, or Bier-Comment of the Senior University, Heidelberg, as it is officially known, has
passed through several revisions and editions since 1829. In common with other university beer
codes, however, the Heidelberg laws begin with paragraph 11. Paragraphs 1 to 10 are left blank,
being presumably the ten commandments of the Old Testament. The eleventh paragraph, or
commandment of Heidelberg University reads: Es wird fortgesoffen, or, freely translated, "Keep on drinking."
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