Archaeologist I global late antiquity and beyond I writing a book about the Danube I also like to ride my bike a long way
Susanne Hakenbeck
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The first publication was in Georgian in 1947 and the second in Russian in the journal Sovetskaya Arkheologia in 1972. I think the linguistic and political divides of the Cold War period were the reason why no one connected the Ureki brooch to the brooches we already knew about.
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Even though their archaeological context is limited, these brooches tell an interesting story about Roman imperialism. But there's another layer: there is a second story about how archaeological interpretations are shaped by modern (geo)politics.
Moodle can be clunky, but it's free and open source. Why would institutions go for a commercial platform? And why is Canvas so dominant in the US?
I tracked down the original publications. It was found in 1942 near the village of Ureki on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. Neither the dating nor the archaeological context are very secure, but it seems to fall into the late 3rd-early 4th c CE. This fits with the date ranges of the other brooches.
In the paper I argue that Roman emperors gave gold brooches and medallions to rulers beyond the frontier as diplomatic gifts. Finding them in graves in Slovakia, Romania, and now Georgia tells us something about how Rome managed relationships with rulers it couldn't formally control.
I have a new paper out: 'The Emperor's Gift: Power and Legitimacy across the Late Roman Frontier' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
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In '24 I attended the Limes Congress in Georgia, and I saw this brooch in the National Museum in Tbilisi. It reminded me of a group of well known late antique "imperial brooches" from central Europe, but why was a similar brooch buried in Georgia? This sent me down a research rabbit hole.
Ein Sieg für die Demokratie!
Und damit wünsche ich eine gute Nacht. 😴
