As Christmas nears, here's a lovely L15-E16thC portable nativity scene from a gold ring, found Sleaford, Lincs :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 …pic.twitter.com/NCsXFSNBJH
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Another Byzantine Nativity, from the Menologion of Basil II, c. AD 1000: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_053.jpg …pic.twitter.com/POd5VZIe5I
An ivory leaf from a Byzantine diptych showing the Nativity, 1st half of 6th century, from Thessaly, Greece: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=60956&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/Du26K8xXiq
A late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Nativity scene carved in ivory & a near-identical illumination of the same scene from the late 10th-century Benedictional of St Æthelwold (f.15v): http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/british-european/ivories/item-440815.aspx … & http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_49598_f015v …pic.twitter.com/D6HoPwjmH7
An 8th- or 9th-century Nativity scene on a bronze censer, thought likely to have been made in Umayyad or early Abbasid northern Syria: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=60791&partId=1 … & http://www.jstor.org/stable/4199974 pic.twitter.com/dr6rhbxLiH
A 12th-century champlevé enamel plaque featuring the Nativity, made in the Meuse Valley, the Netherlands, in c.1165: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464405 …pic.twitter.com/kYKfsmEerj
A 9th-century Carolingian situla (bucket for holy water) decorated with the life of Christ including the Nativity; it is made from an entire hollowed out section of an elephant tusk: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464438 …pic.twitter.com/6cg2bT8HF1
An early Byzantine terracotta pilgrim-token of the 6th/7th century, depicting the Nativity with the Virgin on the left; found Qal'at Sem'an, Syria: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=61435&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/sds9AqZEMj
A Nativity scene worked in niello on the undersurface of the lid of the early 9th-century Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/472562 …pic.twitter.com/GaP7KctZHM
The Nativity, by the 13th-century Armenian manuscript illuminator T'oros Roslin, produced 1262: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/31378/nativity-3/ …pic.twitter.com/EiXRDgoinX
A very early Nativity scene, first half of 4th century, sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Sarcophage_de_Marcus_Claudianus_-_Pal._Massimo_alle_Terme.JPG …pic.twitter.com/dhS4BdEIro
A 9th-century Carolingian Nativity scene in the Utrecht Psalter: http://psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=183&res=1&x=167&y=0 …pic.twitter.com/pWYv5D2fmK
Another Carolingian Nativity scene, from the front cover of the early 9th-century Lorsch Gospels: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BLW_Lorsch_Gospels_cover_(detail).jpg …pic.twitter.com/rnUU6MlQRl
A 6th-century ivory panel depicting the Nativity of Jesus; probably made in Egypt or Syria: https://rylandscollections.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/sixth-century-nativity/ …pic.twitter.com/NF0bziQgr0
A final Nativity scene, from St James's Church, Louth, Christmas morning 2017 :) Merry Christmas everyone!pic.twitter.com/7u8Dyi7aBv
How about a little history lesson on the Magi? I read that the Bactrian king Menander is identified as being one of them, but wasn’t he a Buddhist?
I'll do that one in the new year for Epiphany :) One is said to have originated in that area, it's true (Menander would be too early, of course!)
This is why you are the professional historian.
Three guys in top hats!
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