Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain & beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/07/sasanian-finds-in-early-medieval-britain.html …pic.twitter.com/z9cKxck4jk
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A Sasanian garnet intaglio of a lion mounted in a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, from Sibertswold Down, Kent (pics=Faussett 1856; Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale).pic.twitter.com/Ys0oSFZHPt
Another Sasanian coin of Khosrow II (590–628) from Britain, found on the coast of Anglesey, Wales, in 2001: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/07/sasanian-finds-in-early-medieval-britain.html …pic.twitter.com/spRs48q7M8
Coin of Boran, c.630, the first woman to rule the Sasanian Empire—the latest Sasanian coins discovered in southern China belong to her reign: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1284846001&objectId=3345960&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/2VRk9Rt78e
I see a crescent before the Islamic age
Yes - but the star and crescent is a symbol used in many historical contexts & develops in the Hellenistic period (4th BCE) in Kingdom of Pontus & notably the city of Byzantium by the 2nd century BCE. It is also found on Sassanid coins beginning in the 5th or 6th century CE.
All this is copied from, where else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent …
Fascinating. Who brought it to England (& when)?
Not sure it will work in a machine.
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