A thread on medieval parrots :)https://twitter.com/TheMedievalDrK/status/925116530697883648 …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
do you know how early they were introduced to Africa? I know they're native to India, but now are naturalized widely. Wonder about MAges.
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Replying to @TheMedievalDrK @caitlinrgreen
I tweeted this just now but the related Alexandrine parrot was in NA by the Roman imperial period.
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ca. 2nd c. BCE from Pergamon, in the Pergamon museum in Berlin.pic.twitter.com/BYnLY9juJV
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Clement of Alexandria scorns women for keeping parrots in his Pedagogus, for example as well.
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Parrots with ribbons adorned the floors of a villa from 5th c. CE Antioch (in the Baltimore Museum of Art):pic.twitter.com/zSODR6Ahiv
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Parrots: Not just a western medieval phenomenon, & in fact were in Europe before the Middle Ages entirely.
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& just to round it out, here are (likely) Alexandrine parrots on the mosaics of the Rotunda in Thessalonikipic.twitter.com/iGpCMJH3wm
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Replying to @xeimevta @TheMedievalDrK
Fabulous! :) If I recall correctly, parrots are associated w/ India in Roman textual & artefactual sources, though? Can't think, offhand, >
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> of any evidence of naturalization then(??) &, of course, still claimed as purely Indian in 12thC, so after that? (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7egVUaj2oyUC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112#v=onepage&q&f=false …)
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Oh, missed your first post! So, Alexandrine parrot was naturalized in North Africa in Roman era?! Awesome! :)
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