商品簡介
The British Museum Byzantine Seminar organizes annual conferences on the material culture of Late Antiquity and Byzantium; the 30 essays here represent all but four of the presentations at the May 2009 conference. The topics include non-destructive gemmological tests to identify ancient gems, magical gems and classical archaeology, intaglios and cameos from Gaul in the third and fourth centuries AD, the Belgrade cameo, and reflections on gems depicting the contest of Athena and Poseidon. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Chris Entwistle has been the curator of the Late Roman and Byzantine Collections at the British Museum since 1985. Dr Noel Adams is an independent scholar who has published widely on the metalwork and jewellery of the Early Middle Ages.
