Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain & beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity? — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/07/sasanian-finds-in-early-medieval-britain.html …pic.twitter.com/Ju2lz2QvKE
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Another Sasanian coin of Khosrow II (590–628) from Britain, found on the coast of Anglesey, Wales, in 2001: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/40409 …pic.twitter.com/QqPhgmiFpF
A 5th–6thC Sasanian glass bowl preserved in the 8thC imperial treasures of the Shōsōin, Nara, Japan; see further http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/japan-xi-collections-of-persian-art-in-japan …pic.twitter.com/Ffbc28bgGl
A Sasanian glass vessel discovered in a L5thC tumulus at Nara, Japan (tomb no.126): http://www.tnm.jp/uploads/r_collection/LL_60.jpg …pic.twitter.com/zvc7hK4qzI
5th–7thC beads from Kissi, Burkina Faso, W. Africa—the majority of the glass beads were made in the Sasanian Empire: https://www.academia.edu/10180972/Sahelian_crossroads_Some_aspects_on_the_Iron_Age_sites_of_Kissi_Burkina_Faso …pic.twitter.com/lY7ep5nlkV
7thC Sasanian glass beads found in Mozambique+Botswana; the beads found at Nqoma, Botswana, had travelled c.9,500km… https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287872855_The_glass_of_chibuene_mozambique_New_insights_into_early_indian_ocean_trade …pic.twitter.com/oB865Splmr
A 7th-century AD Tibetan silk riding coat, possibly of Sasanian origin: http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp206_sasanian_persia.pdf …pic.twitter.com/IwOvUMqN0b
A Sasanian glass bowl excavated from the mid-sixth-century AD tumulus of Emperor Ankan in Osaka, Japan: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass_Bowl,_Kofun_period,_6th_century,_perhaps_from_the_tomb_of_Emperor_Ankan,_Habikino-shi,_Osaka_-_Tokyo_National_Museum_-_DSC06402.JPG …pic.twitter.com/VelW1B2Yka
A 6th-7thC silk textile woven in Japan & imitating a Persian original, from the 8thC Shōsōin Depository, Nara, Japan http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp206_sasanian_persia.pdf …pic.twitter.com/ubl3cNtBtJ
7th-10thC Persian beads found in the central Kalahari Desert, southern Africa; KC4183 & KC4093 are prob Sasanian: https://www.academia.edu/13186082/The_Glass_Beads_of_Kaitshaa …pic.twitter.com/yxJhxYjejO
A 6th–7thC AD Sogdian silk jacket in the Sasanian style, featuring confronted peacocks in pearl roundels: http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp206_sasanian_persia.pdf …pic.twitter.com/eSf1bfgjKQ
Roman glass plate that was later painted in Sasanian Persia+subsequently deposited in a 5thC AD tomb in Nara, Japan: https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/glass-dish-unearthed-in-nara-came-from.html …pic.twitter.com/0bAekTSnqu
A Sasanian coin of Khosrow II, probably minted c.618 at Veh-Kavat or Veh-Ardashir, modern Iraq, & possibly found in the East Midlands (PAS).pic.twitter.com/RKjkUlKAZp
The 6thC 'Cup of Chosroes', made for Sasanian king Chosroes I (Khosrow I) & prob sent to France in Carolingian era: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BP-0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/pYlLPr7GDp
The 'Eleanor' crystal vase, a 6th–7thC Sasanian rock crystal vase with a 12thC French gilded silver mount: http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/eleanor-crystal-vase …pic.twitter.com/wDSQjwrutb
A sherd from a 6th-7thC Sasanian glass bowl found at the Kamigamojinja shrine in Kyoto, Japan: https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/glass-fragment-found-at-kyoto-shrine.html …pic.twitter.com/9eWzX6OB6D
A glass ewer made in the Iraq region & preserved in the 8thC Shōsōin Repository, Japan: https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/6-nara-period-sees-the-nurturing-of-chinese-culture/tempyo-arts/in-the-news-shoso-in-and-emperor-shomu/the-comfort-and-luxury-of-an-emperor-emperor-shomus-personal-possessions-on-display/ … & http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/japan-xi-collections-of-persian-art-in-japan …pic.twitter.com/iL3WNw8y1H
Finally, worth noting again the recently revealed inscription suggesting a Persian official/teacher in 8thC Japan: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/05/national/history/research-uncovers-evidence-ancient-japan-cosmopolitan-previously-thought …pic.twitter.com/84QWloLtSJ
Photograph of the Sasanian garnet intaglio of a lion in a 7thC Anglo-Saxon gold pendant from Sibertswold Down, Kent: http://inventorium.arch.ox.ac.uk/lg_image.php?site_ID=Sib&grave_ID=Sib172&object_ID=M6528&image_ID=CS_M6528&g= …pic.twitter.com/E5NBKxzLag
Coin of Boran, c.630, 1st woman to rule the Sasanian Empire—latest Sasanian coins in S. China belong to her reign: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3345960&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/w5t7jCVBkF
A 5th–7thC AD '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/qkPsPSMcNw
Sasanian dish depicting Bahram V hunting with Azadeh, late 6th/early 7th century; found in Russia in 1927: https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/shm/shmsasanian.html …pic.twitter.com/Bx7M6dsQun
'Ancient glassware travelled the Silk Road'—new paper on Sasanian & Roman glass in 5th-century AD Japan :) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X17305825 …pic.twitter.com/VEgiChb8Ue
'Some Sassanian silver coins discovered at Axiopolis (Cernavoda, Constanta County, Romania)' — https://www.academia.edu/3783871/Sassanian_silver_coins_from_Axiopolis …pic.twitter.com/sJQB9TYfrR
An early 'Jatim' bead of c. AD 400, made in Jawa Timur/East Java out of Sasanian glass & found in Korea. 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/Rt2c3ZCRS0
A probably Sasanian intaglio set in a ring discovered in an early Anglo-Saxon grave at Alfriston, Sussex.pic.twitter.com/57iYeE7dEW
A late 6th-/7th-century Sasanian lobed dish found at Mala Pereshchepina, Ukraine, in 1912 along with other Sasanian metalwork: https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/shm/shmsasanian.html …pic.twitter.com/n0l3TuhB2B
A piece of silk used to cover the inner faces of doors of the gold altar of 835 at Sant'Ambrogio, Milan; the rider has been identified with the Sasanian ruler Bahram V: http://artquill.blogspot.com/2014/01/timelines-of-fabrics-dyes-and-other.html …pic.twitter.com/ACF9hWf26L
Battle scene featuring a Sasanian king from a fragment of a pair of trousers; 5th/6th century AD, found Antinoe, Egypt: http://artquill.blogspot.com/2014/01/timelines-of-fabrics-dyes-and-other.html …pic.twitter.com/6A0MPa09qb
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