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
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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
And what a tale lies therein...a Persian teacher in 8th C Japan! What was their journey like?!
I suspect via the 'Silk Road of the Sea'; Persian goods arriving in Korea and Japan, possibly via direct trade, from 5thC :)
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