One of my favourites :) A Roman 'ribbon glass cup', prob made Italy c. 25 BC-50 AD: http://blog.cmog.org/2011/06/27/antiquity-or-contemporary/ …pic.twitter.com/ty31xPL2OK
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An early medieval Lombardic glass drinking horn, L6th-E7thC, made in N. Italy: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468980 …pic.twitter.com/2Qlg0WBYkX
Some Hunnish horse trappings, 4th-5thC, southwest Russia, made from gold, copper+gemstones: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77447 pic.twitter.com/wNDd7LZvF0
The Canterbury pendant, made c.620s, buried ?mid7thC, w/ cross motif and garnet cloisonné: http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/contributions/699 …pic.twitter.com/2TF7Vo7PbK
Glass fish vessel, ?1stC AD, prob made w/ glass from Roman Egypt & found Begram, Afghanistan https://www.britishmuseum.org/PDF/Mairs.pdf pic.twitter.com/tC8ibmCTa8
A lovely 1stC AD rock crystal fish, pierced for suspension, from a grave at Arezzo, Italy: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/ArezzoGrave.html …pic.twitter.com/DfQS3YNz4T
An Ostrogothic L5th-E6thC gold+garnet head-dress pin w/ chain, found Domagnano, San Marino: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=40476001&objectId=90038&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/8c59sDFf5v
A 3rd-4thC AD Roman glass bipartite kohl tube w/ a thin bronze applicator: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/221820/unknown-maker-bipartite-kohl-tube-roman-3rd-4th-century/?dz=0.5000,0.8909,0.51 …pic.twitter.com/rUSjya9KCW
A turquoise 'Raqqa ware' jar, made in L12th-E13thC Syria: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451360 … & https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jar_Met_56.185.15.jpg …pic.twitter.com/uPyzAMTuMA
Detail of the Sigurd portal from the demolished L12/E13thC stave church at Hylestad, Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylestad_stave_church …pic.twitter.com/WDeBOfX495
A Roman emerald green glass boat, 1stC AD, found Pompeii: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=1162831001&objectId=466289&partId=1 … & http://blog.oup.com/2013/08/pompeii-herculaneum-roman-ruins-slideshow/ …pic.twitter.com/afeeYRGaYv
Several theories as to function of Roman glass boats, incl that were women's urinals! See http://www.cmog.org/article/roman-glass-boats …pic.twitter.com/E1ZZeABc6V
Wow, got to love a boat in mud
Close to two millenia at the bottom of the Thames did it no good whatsoever. Pity that more didn't survive.
Is it still preserved somewhere?
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