I was reading about these flasks on the train tonight!
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They're most interesting, especially as the numbers slowly climb...!
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I was reading about them in Anthea Harris' Byzantium, Britain and the West - far fewer examples known at that time it would seem, amazing what can change over the course of a decade or so...
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A really interesting book that one! Same rate of increase for other evidence too e.g. coins :)
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You can still visit the remains of the Abu Mena monastery -- a huge, sprawling site that shows what a major destination it once was, but sadly not in great condition today (these photos from 2012).pic.twitter.com/Q15oxaYHzM
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Menas seems to have been a great saint in early 6 7thC Patrick Perrin mentioned him in his book abt Barbarian realms
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Do any of the ones found in Britain have St. Thecla on the other side? Some of the ones found in Egypt do. Don't know why Menas and Thecla are both on them.
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