Um, so this is pretty ace - a Sasanian silver drachm of the period 590-628, found on the Thames foreshore at Putney https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/845582 …pic.twitter.com/3wDh4gQvTU
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Makes sense to me! *goes off to add the numismatic evidence to my chapter on east-west connections under Gregory the Great*
Hah! :) Of course, if I'm right & simply reflect continuing direct trade between E Med and UK in period of Sasanian control of Levant/Egypt>
>, then suggests/supports trade not solely directed from Constantinople in this era but more organic?
I’d say v fewer and fewer byzantinists accept cnople as the sole origin/departure point of commerce & culture! So yes!
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