Mid7thC gold cross from tomb in Cividale (N. Italy), supposedly of Gisulfo, 1st Lombardic duke …http://www.museoarcheologicocividale.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/170/longobard-necropolises …pic.twitter.com/a8Zwm18ny7
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As a novice in all of this, but a person who professional and privately plans things from quilts to community infastructure, that repeated shape and pattern would indicate to me a common effort and common shared manufacturing process - shops, masters, students...but. novice here.
Adams has suggested garnet cloisonné evolved from Late Roman/Sasanian lapidary traditions and presumably diffused from there? Question is, I suppose, how much trade involved pre-cut garnets etc?!
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