Inlaid Buckles and Plates from the Great Migration Period Showing Relief Scroll Decorations: Byzantium and Barbaricum
Journal: Античная древность и средние века
Year: 2022

This article examines the inlaid artefacts with garnets decorated with carved spirals, which originate from Kerch and date from the late stage of the Great Migration Period. According to B. Arrhenius, carved gemstones occurring in Europe in the Hunnic and Post-­­Hunnic Periods were the products of Mediterranean workshops, primarily of Constantinople. This stone-­­working technology requires specific skills; the barbarians did not have this technology in the period in question. The finds from Ker