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
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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
Roman glass was a high value export in the ancient world. It's amazing how far this delicate commodity traveled!
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