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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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 :)
5th–7thC AD anklets found at Kissi, Burkina Faso (W. Africa), made w/ metal prob imported from E.Mediterranean & UK: https://afriques.revues.org/1145 pic.twitter.com/Katnbbh6GC
A 5thC Gold & garnet cloisonné buckle, thought to have been probably made in Constantinople & found at Raab, Hungary http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466145 …pic.twitter.com/R0lgCmRSBo
Trying to get handle on origins of gold+garnet jewellery & why it spread so far but getting much noise in web searches. Any help? Thx
Here's Noël Adams PhD on garnet cloisonné :) http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262849 … (iirc, it's free to create an account and download).
And here's a recent project on it, lots of interesting posts etc :) http://zellwerk.hypotheses.org
Thank you Dr Green, much appreciated :)
My pleasure :)
More on Byzantine coins in China, via 'When East Met West in Antiquity', by @DLVLK :) http://phdiva.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/when-east-met-west-in-antiquity.html … & http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/vol3num2/4_ying.php …pic.twitter.com/5MjeQpC0GL
The Byzantine Empire. Not enough people know of it. John Julius Norwich's trilogy opened my eyes
From China to Sutton Hoo! Anastasia rules! [ruled, obviously]
Wow!
It's beautiful!
Miradas doradas.
The dollar or Euro of an earlier age.
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