Re: That old Odin scenario ...

From: george knysh
Message: 58213
Date: 2008-04-30

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > > So, what you're saying is that the burials of
> local
> > > nobility in the
> > > 1st century BCE would always include objects of
> that
> > > style?
> >
> > GK: Nearly always. Or other identifiable
> "eastern"
> > luxury items (if the nobility was Iranic or
> > Bosporan).
>
> Let's say some Dandarian nobility passed by and
> later migrated south
> and west. Would they necessarily pick up local
> luxury knick-knack, or
> (if they were big Rome-snobs) would they stay with
> the wine taster set
> from back home (of which some of the glasses were of
> Eastern Roman
> provenance)?

****GK: What time frame are you looking at for
this?****
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>



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