One of several fifth- to sixth-century Eastern Roman/Byzantine coins found in a container buried on a 6thC monastic site in the Maldives.pic.twitter.com/UEF90ImnI2
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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One of several fifth- to sixth-century Eastern Roman/Byzantine coins found in a container buried on a 6thC monastic site in the Maldives.pic.twitter.com/UEF90ImnI2
A silk cushion cover made in Byzantine Syria and preserved in the 8thC imperial Shōsōin Repository at Nara, Japan.pic.twitter.com/XHpYLqRlSb
Late Roman/Early Byzantine glass and imitations recovered from late fifth- to early sixth-century Silla tombs in Korea.pic.twitter.com/ByjQMWh093
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
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
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
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