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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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! :)
Mint gold Byzantine coin of Anastasius (491–518) found in the tomb of Emperor Jiemin (498-532), Northern Wei dynasty http://primaltrek.com/blog/2013/10/31/byzantine-gold-coin-found-in-tomb-of-emperor-jiemin-of-northern-wei/ …pic.twitter.com/QoVoU9jO5J
Two sherds of Phocaean Red Slip Ware with impressed crosses, made in the eastern Mediterranean & found at Tintagel; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/WTkiADnJ7O
Two sherds of Phocaean Red Slip Ware from eastern Mediterranean Garranes ringfort #Cork #Ireland 500AD. Excavated same time as #Tintagelpic.twitter.com/fswySpoK6c
Fabulous! Thank you :)
A fragment of an early Byzantine wine amphora from southern Greece, found at the important 5th–6thC site of Tintagel, Cornwall.pic.twitter.com/NFtiGjYTbw
So, this 5th–7thC bead believed made from early Byzantine glass in Jawa Timur/East Java; to include or not…? Pic: https://www.academia.edu/22146727/A_study_of_mid-first_millennium_CE_Southeast_Asian_specialized_glass_beadmaking_traditions_Lankton_et_al_2008_ISEA_ …pic.twitter.com/bkiWEa0LYo
A 5th-7thC 'Jatim' bead made in Jawa Timur/East Java & found at the Byzantine seaport of Berenice, Egypt. Image via https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Eyemu-_MncwC&lpg=PA138-IA8&pg=PA138-IA8#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/lZmcKc4qrM
Another 5th-7thC 'Jatim' bead made in Jawa Timur/East Java from a mixture of Byzantine & Sasanian glass; image via https://www.academia.edu/22146727/A_study_of_mid-first_millennium_CE_Southeast_Asian_specialized_glass_beadmaking_traditions_Lankton_et_al_2008_ISEA_ …pic.twitter.com/uErlGe7co6
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/PUln79lUoV
An early 7th-century Byzantine silver gilded dish with Silenus & a Maenad; made Constantinople & found in 1878 near Perm, Russia: https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/shm/shmbyz.html …pic.twitter.com/kAXbEnPCPz
Clearly the age of the Emperor Heraclius continued to enjoy its classical mythology.
Yes, so it would seem!
Did someone try to rub it yet?
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