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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7915094, member: 110504"]Fantastic OP, [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], resonantly doing justice to the significance of the subject matter. No pics of anything relevant here (true of more stuff than one could wish), but the other contributions are terrific. </p><p>...One fun detail is that, from the 6th century, Aksumite coins start imitating the facing-portrait motif of Justinian. ...Well, wait! Here's one recent enough acquisition to have pics (...also posted before). Justinian was in active diplomatic contact with Kaleb, who invaded a part of Yemen, partly in defense of its Christian population. This corresponds more or less to a Byzantine tremissis.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367399[/ATTACH] </p><p>And here's a later-6th-century AE of Hataz, imitating Byzantine facing portraits. (While Kaleb is still using legends mostly in Greek, the ones here are entirely in Ge'ez.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367401[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7915094, member: 110504"]Fantastic OP, [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], resonantly doing justice to the significance of the subject matter. No pics of anything relevant here (true of more stuff than one could wish), but the other contributions are terrific. ...One fun detail is that, from the 6th century, Aksumite coins start imitating the facing-portrait motif of Justinian. ...Well, wait! Here's one recent enough acquisition to have pics (...also posted before). Justinian was in active diplomatic contact with Kaleb, who invaded a part of Yemen, partly in defense of its Christian population. This corresponds more or less to a Byzantine tremissis. [ATTACH=full]1367399[/ATTACH] And here's a later-6th-century AE of Hataz, imitating Byzantine facing portraits. (While Kaleb is still using legends mostly in Greek, the ones here are entirely in Ge'ez.) [ATTACH=full]1367401[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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