Gemstones in the first millennium AD
Subtitle: mines, trade, workshops and symbolism : International Conference, October 20th-22nd, 2015, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz
By: Alexandra Hilgner, Susanne Greiff, Dieter Quast (eds)
Contributors: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz
Series: RGZM-Tagungen -- Band 30; RGZM Tagungen -- Bd. 30.
Publisher: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums; [Schnell + Steiner, distributor]
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Mainz; [Regensburg]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783884672716; 9783795432393
Subjects: Precious stones; Congresses; History; Mines and mineral resources; Edelstein; Edelsteinbergbau; Edelsteinhandel; Werkstatt; Symbolik
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mines and Trade.; title: Introduction: Mines and Trade  -- Dieter Quast, Alexandra Hilgner, Susanne Greiff; title: Elusive Gemstone Mines: the Red Garnet Industry in Contemporary Rajasthan  -- Borayin Larios; title: Gemstones in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Trade along the Maritime Networks  -- Brigitte Borell; title: Gemstones and Mineral Products in the Red Sea/Indian Ocean Trade of the First Millennium  -- Eivind Heldaas Seland; title: Amber and Beaver Furs: Trade with Raw Material for the Production of Luxury Goods  -- Dieter Quast; title: The Circulation of Garnets in the North Sea Zone, ca. 400-700  -- Helena Hamerow.; title: Gemstone Working.; title: Introduction to Gemstone Working  -- Judith Jordan, Elke Nieveler, Michael Schmauder; title: Two Workshops with Garnet Crafts in Gamla Uppsala  -- John Ljungkvist, Jonna Sarén Lundahl, Per Frölund; title: East Africa as a Source for Fatimid Rock Crystal : Workshops from Kenya to Madagascar  -- Mark Horton [and five others]; title: The Manufacturing techniques of Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewers  -- Elise Morero [and four others]; title: A Rock Crystal Workshop from Cologne  -- Manfred Burianek, Thomas Höltken.; title: The Value and Symbolic Meaning(s) of Gemstones.; title: An introduction to the Value and the Symbolic Meanings(s) of Gemstones  -- Kerstin Sobkowiak; title: Archaeogemmology and the Ancient Literary Sources on Gems and their Origins  -- Lisbet Thoresen; title: The Symbolism of Gemstones in Indian Religions  -- James McHugh; title: From the Bible to the Liber Pontificalis : Gems and Precious Stones in the Early Medieval Churches : Combinations, Colours and Contexts  -- Michelle Beghelli; title: Gemstones in Pre-Islamic Persia : Social and Symbolic Meanings of Sasanian Seals  -- Nils C. Ritter; title: The Symbolism of Byzantine Gemstones : Written Sources, Objects and Sympathetic Magic in Byzantium  -- Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie.; title: Poster Session.; title: Gemstones as Insignia  -- Kerstin Sobkowiak [and four others]; title: Between Fashion and Meaning : Red Garnet and Style Changes from the 5th to the 7th Century  -- Jörg Drauschke [and three others]; title: Garnet : Crisis along Trade Routes in the 7th Century?  -- Stefan Albrecht [and fourteen others]; title: Garnet on the Peripheries of the Centres of Fashion  -- Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Alexandra Hilgner, Antonio Juárez Villena; title: Gemstones in Heaven and Earth : Rivers of Opulence in Historical Sources  -- Stefan Albrecht, Julia Bolotina and Kerstin Sobkowiak; title: Quality by its Definition -- Elke Nieveler [and four others].