Above brooch=same era as gold coin w/ Arabic issued by Anglo-Saxon king Offa of Mercia, L8thC: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1093298&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/hFHChuA1Oy
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Above brooch=same era as gold coin w/ Arabic issued by Anglo-Saxon king Offa of Mercia, L8thC: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1093298&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/hFHChuA1Oy
Offa's coin imitated dinar of Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (cf image, via https://twitter.com/BeardyHowse/status/543536800938356736 …) but w/ his name added.pic.twitter.com/EY1Tbwa2cE
@caitlinrgreen A way of indicating a coin of equivalent quality and weight, and, therefore, of equivalent value?
@JAJafri Certainly possible; usual explanation=used to pay Pope, copying dinar as standard weight, but maybe use in trading more plausible?
@caitlinrgreen @JAJafri In the #Indusvalley 1900-2600 BCEseals are used are trading devices (money) also.#Sindhpic.twitter.com/XDHYB8iIye
@ambrin_hayat @caitlinrgreen Were these made from baked clay? Any news of any progress on the deciphering of the symbols/#script on these?
@caitlinrgreen probably ALLAH written
@Umarkarim89 "sha[‘a] [a]llah (or `bismillah’?) or tubna lilllah--‘As God wills (or In the name of Allah?)’ or ‘We have repented to God’"
@caitlinrgreen now on a closer look it looks bismillah, either bismillah or Mashallah
@caitlinrgreen impressed from your knowledge of Arabic simply great :-)
@Umarkarim89 Ah, if only, but not my reading/translation---from the British Museum record entry for the artefact: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=88065&partId=1&page=1 …
@caitlinrgreen Ballycotton!
@traceofwaste Not according to post! Brooch said to be from Ballycottin bog, w/ Ballycotton modern town with Ballycottin townland(?!) :)
@caitlinrgreen aha, so it does! Was unaware of alternate spelling of townland.
Fascinating finds though :)
@caitlinrgreen what a crazy medieval world that must have been where Christians and Muslims collaborated on ideas and designs - sheesh!
@caitlinrgreen 8-9th century #Cross with #Arabic writing, evidence of contact with #MiddleEast #Christians? @britishmuseum @DalrympleWill
@caitlinrgreen @CrombieJIM Wow! That is extremely beautiful!
@caitlinrgreen @Duncan207 "There is no god but God"
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