Coins and Costume in Late Antiquity
Coins and Costume in Late Antiquity

Author: Jutta-Annette Bruhn

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780884022190

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This catalogue focuses on numismatic gold jewelry, from pendants set with coins and medallions to stamped pseudo-medallions, or a combination of both. Special attention is given to the technical issues of mounting techniques.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

Author: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0892360909

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.

Cultural Encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700
Cultural Encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500-700

Author: Andrei Gandila

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781108455978

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In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of exclusion in the northern Balkans. If left unattended, the entire edifice could easily collapse under its own weight. Through a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, the author demonstrates that communities living beyond the frontier competed for access to Byzantine goods and reshaped their identity as a result of continual negotiation, reinvention, and hybridization. In the hands of 'barbarians', Byzantine objects, such as coins, jewelry, and terracotta lamps, possessed more than functional or economic value, bringing social prestige, conveying religious symbolism embedded in the iconography, and offering a general sense of sharing in the Early Byzantine provincial lifestyle.