3/21- “Toasting the Defeat of the ‘Barbarians’? A Byzantine Material Culture Mystery” A Talk with Professor Eric Ivison
‘Toasting the Defeat of the ‘Barbarians’? A Byzantine Material Culture Mystery
A Talk and Discussion with Professor Ivison
Friday. March 21st at 1:30 PM on Zoom
This talk discusses the interpretation of Byzantine drinking bowls recently excavated in modern Istanbul, the former Byzantine capital of Constantinople, and dated to the first half of the seventh century CE. These drinking bowls are unusual in terms of their shape and decoration, bearing representations of human faces, here identified as stereotypical images of Avars, a nomadic people of the Eurasian steppe regarded by the Byzantines as ‘barbarians’. This presentation discusses how these vessels, in combination with other sources, shed light on the Byzantine cultural construction of the Avar ‘barbarian’ and on historical events in seventh-century Constantinople.
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