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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      4 replies 41 retweets 101 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 5 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      4 replies 62 retweets 118 likes
    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 6 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      Seven glass beads found in southern Africa; colours vary, mainly green-blue.
      2 replies 13 retweets 46 likes
    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 6 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      Brilliant coloured jacket with repeating motif of birds in pearl roundels.
      6 replies 43 retweets 122 likes
    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      8 replies 130 retweets 263 likes
    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      6 replies 26 retweets 76 likes
    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      Image of the cup, by Clio20 - actually a gold and gem dish with a rock crystal image of the king at the centre. Image source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coupe_de_Chosroès.JPG
      5 replies 84 retweets 207 likes
    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 28 Jul 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      3 replies 67 retweets 161 likes
    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      2 replies 10 retweets 41 likes
    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Aug 2017
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      1 reply 23 retweets 70 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Sep 2017

      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

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Oct 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          1 reply 18 retweets 51 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 4 Nov 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          2 replies 41 retweets 86 likes
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Nov 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          4 replies 20 retweets 55 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Dec 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          4 replies 20 retweets 76 likes
        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 12
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          '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

          1 reply 27 retweets 64 likes
        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Feb 21
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          '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

          2 replies 6 retweets 20 likes
        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Feb 25
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          3 replies 29 retweets 84 likes
        9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Mar 11
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A probably Sasanian intaglio set in a ring discovered in an early Anglo-Saxon grave at Alfriston, Sussex.pic.twitter.com/57iYeE7dEW

          2 replies 6 retweets 15 likes
        10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Mar 16
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          2 replies 29 retweets 70 likes
        11. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Oct 15
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          3 replies 21 retweets 62 likes
        12. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Oct 15
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          1 reply 17 retweets 33 likes
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 4 Dec 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Some sherds of 8th- to 10th-century turquoise-blue glazed jars from Iraq found in Japan: https://www.academia.edu/28504387/Priestman_2016_The_Silk_Road_or_the_Sea_Sasanian_and_Islamic_Exports_to_Japan …pic.twitter.com/2IL5hVMbQB

          1 reply 9 retweets 19 likes
        3. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 4 Dec 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          That's pretty amazing, Caitlin! *cues up 'I Get Around' by the Beach Boys*

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 4 Dec 2017
          Replying to @GeorgeRick1

          Awesome isn't it! :)

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        5. End of conversation
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        2. Tim E.539594‏ @TimEdwards584 2 Sep 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A function of Islam's explosive expansion?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Sep 2017
          Replying to @TimEdwards584

          Easier to see as part of possibly direct maritime contacts/trade from 5thC onwards?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Tim E.539594‏ @TimEdwards584 3 Sep 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Gregory pts to 'Syrian' traders in Orleans, Marseilles. Who they? Rebel Gundovald clearly a Byz agent with loads of cash, Kings Childebert&

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Sep 2017
          Replying to @TimEdwards584

          Ken Dark had a useful essay on them: 'Early Byzantine Mercantile Communities in the West':https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_IImDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false …

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. End of conversation
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        2. RedCosmonaut‏ @RedCosmonaut 2 Sep 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          And what a tale lies therein...a Persian teacher in 8th C Japan! What was their journey like?!

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Sep 2017
          Replying to @RedCosmonaut

          I suspect via the 'Silk Road of the Sea'; Persian goods arriving in Korea and Japan, possibly via direct trade, from 5thC :)

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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