A L5thC coin of the Alachon Huns, who ruled in Afghanistan; note the cranial deformation: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/s/silver_dinar_of_the_alchon_hun.aspx …pic.twitter.com/SMnpX9teL8
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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 :)
A mid-5thC account of Attila and his court, by the Priscus--a fascinating, contemporary description :) http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/priscus.html …
@caitlinrgreen Wonderful Priscus's scary trip to the Dark side; cranium from Hungary seen in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JriLpOyFEaQ …pic.twitter.com/sKw1i3GDHi
@davidgmwilson Fabulous! :)
Another very nice Hunnic (or Frankish) piece--a 4/5thC crystal ball encased in gold: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/466360?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=Hunnic&pos=2&sc_device=default&persisted=true&imgno=4&tabname=object-information …pic.twitter.com/UFy9MnO4AK
@caitlinrgreen OK it's a tough one! I shall guess it is a vessell used to capture souls from the dead! Or do I get too excited!
@Tweets2CV lol! Well, it's a theory ;)
@caitlinrgreen Yes! It's probably a pendant! Another epic fail!
@Tweets2CV hah! Tbh, they're difficult objects. Here's one theory:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sQFllXEXQ-QC&pg=PA94 …
@caitlinrgreen Great Read thanks. Prisming of light that dances as you move sounds good!
A 5th/6thC gold death mask set w/ garnets, from eastern Hunnic tomb at Boma, Xinjiang: via http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol11/SilkRoad_11_2013_giumliamair.pdf …pic.twitter.com/hyCfL573hX
A L4th-E5thC brooch, 'Gothic culture', from Chernigov province, northern Ukraine: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/25.+Archaeological+Artifacts/3163351/?lng=en …pic.twitter.com/FoBSYN87Cq
A 5thC gold crown, from Kerch, Crimea, in the Cologne's Romisch-Germanische Museum: http://www.museenkoeln.de/roemisch-germanisches-museum/pages/5.aspx?s=5 …pic.twitter.com/EN7HWlLpHw
@LindaK2013 @caitlinrgreen I'd guess garnets; popular is such settings with contemporary Germanic tribes they were in contact with
@LindaK2013 @caitlinrgreen although looking closely is kinda yellowish; I no longer trust my eyes after #whiteandgold
@medievalhistory @caitlinrgreen Russia world's source of Amber...
@LindaK2013 @caitlinrgreen isn't that the Baltic region though? I think garnets are from Bohemia? Could be either
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