A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/03/a-very-long-way-from-home.html …pic.twitter.com/jW7Mtvv3Pi
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A probably sixth-century Byzantine bronze lamp from Egypt, found at Pong Tuk, Thailand: http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/2001/JSS_096_0b_Borrell_EarlyByzantineLampFromPongTuk.pdf …pic.twitter.com/8OjexU2YbH
Coin of Justin II (565–78), found S. India/Sri Lanka & collected by Mackenzie in E19thC, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271621898_Roman_Coins_from_the_Masson_and_Mackenzie_Collections_in_the_British_Museum … by @SushmaJansari :)pic.twitter.com/cFbrHVflQT
It'll be on display with the others from Mac. colln in Indo-Rn trade section of #HotungGallery (how could I leave them out?!)
Oh, excellent! And yes, absolutely! :)
A gold solidus of the Byzantine emperor Anastasius (491–518), found on the Swedish island of Öland: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=111311&g=1 …pic.twitter.com/9tEQ2LDfR4
2/ You think that this particular solidus was collected by the Vikings as a payment for their service in the Varangian Guard?
Usually suggested coins mainly arrived in Baltic near contemporaneously, in 5th–6thC :)
1/ That's way before the Viking Age. Is there any way to trace how these coins wound up in Scandinavia, then?
'The Importation of Byzantine and Sasanian Glass into China during the fourth to sixth centuries': https://www.reading.ac.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=115526&sID=416690 …pic.twitter.com/FIUX25NALM
6thC Byzantine gold coins, belt set and other artefacts found in 2013 in Tashkent province, Uzbekistan: http://www.uzbekembassy.in/information-digest-of-press-of-uzbekistan-172/ …pic.twitter.com/zTaMkK170N
A rim-sherd of early Byzantine Phocaean Red Slip Ware discovered at Collierstown, Co. Meath, Ireland: https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/handle/10379/3263 …pic.twitter.com/lFp69NnfQl
Earlier but interesting—a 2ndC pot found 250km west of Ireland, inscribed w/ C PISCI FAGI + a graffito of an otter: http://www.jstor.org/stable/297059?seq=1#fndtn-page_scan_tab_contents …pic.twitter.com/fVndgLDSE7
Barry Cunliffe on the Roman pot found on Porcupine Bank & possible explanations for why it was found there: https://web.archive.org/web/20131105230706/http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba63/feat2.shtml …pic.twitter.com/PCAf7fPqb0
A 6th-7thC early Byzantine 'Coptic' bowl from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Faversham, found containing hazelnuts :) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=94537&partId=1&place=32264&plaA=32264-3-1&sortBy=imageName&page=2 …pic.twitter.com/Tpwvg4lmW8
Amethyst beads found in a 6thC/7thC cemetery in Kent; thought to probably be Byzantine imports, possibly from India: http://www.canterburytrust.co.uk/learning/resources/galleries/anglo_saxon_cemetery/ …pic.twitter.com/gH1IA4a2w3
Several ancient possibilities, but last analysis i read suggested most plausible was India/Sri Lanka, fwiw :)
Here's a piece from Intelligible Beauty: Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery (London, 2010) :) https://www.academia.edu/20264696/Byzantine_Jewellery_Amethyst_beads_in_East_and_West_during_the_Early_Byzantine_Period …
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