Re: That old Odin scenario ...

> > 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)?


Torsten