Some Hunnish horse trappings, 4thC, southwest Russia, made from gold, copper and gemstones: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunnish_-_Set_of_Horse_Trappings_-_Walters_571050,_571051,_571052,_571060_-_View_A.jpg …pic.twitter.com/366kfOmjFb
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Some Hunnish horse trappings, 4thC, southwest Russia, made from gold, copper and gemstones: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunnish_-_Set_of_Horse_Trappings_-_Walters_571050,_571051,_571052,_571060_-_View_A.jpg …pic.twitter.com/366kfOmjFb
Final one for now, a great E5thC Hunnish gold horse-head brooch, southwest Russia: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/37476/horse-head-fibula/ …pic.twitter.com/LlgBrU0XG6
A 5thC Hunnic gold+garnet 'royal collar', from ?Kyrgyzstan: http://www.thejewelleryeditor.com/2014/11/sothebys-london-auction-fifth-century-royal-jewel-attila-the-hun/ … Details: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/old-master-sculpture-works-art-l14233/lot.12.html …pic.twitter.com/dK3floFFJz
Incidentally, the Sotherby's site above has a v good short article on Hunnic jewellery etc by Noël Adams at the bottom, well worth a read :)
@caitlinrgreen Pardon, please: 1) Was the cranial deformation individual or familial? Cause was?
@Gurdur done in infancy with bandages or boards to bind skull into desired shape whilst still malleable :)
@caitlinrgreen Many thanks. My apologies, and I found the link you gave in another tweet of yours.
@Gurdur no problem! :)
@caitlinrgreen @HMedievale Avars did similar headbinding; wonder if connection has been researched?
@medievalhistory @HMedievale not sure, will have to look! :)
@caitlinrgreen that looks similar to the cranial deformation I saw recently on A Mayan tour in chitzen Itza..those coins are amazing
@anthonytierney interesting how this seems to occur in such different societies!
@caitlinrgreen what is the script on it?
@maria_thaler There's an Alchon tamga+a Bactrian inscription in Greek script: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=928636&partId=1 … [the BM broke the old link, sorry :( ]
@caitlinrgreen thank you
@caitlinrgreen is it for a female figure?
@Archatgs no, that's a male ruler, tho' the skulls w/ cranial deformation that are found are indeed often female
@caitlinrgreen thanks Caitlin, I see your studies are wide and not limited to Anglo-Saxons era. :)
@caitlinrgreen ok....so how far east did the huns travel/originate
@HyettNeal They are usually thought to be the same as a group causing issues for the Chinese a few centuries earlier than Attila
@caitlinrgreen yes the point that the great migration headed east into China as well. Ok.
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