Millefiori glass panelTurkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism
"Colorful discovery in ancient city of Andriake", Hürriyet Daily News:
Haberin Devamı
Posted on 09/19/2024 6:51:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, excavations at the site of the ancient port of Andriake uncovered the remains of decorative millefiori panels, a glasswork technique fusing different sizes and colors of glass rods which are then cut into sections and re-fused together to form patterns. Nevzat Çevik of Akdeniz University said that each of the hundreds of small, flat glass fragments measures about one and one-half inches square. They were found in the city's agora, in a building thought to have been the port's administrative center in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., based upon the coins and ceramics found in the same layer as the glass. Researchers are now working to reassemble the fragments. "This is a very luxurious wall covering material," Çevik said. "These are works that consist of different flowers and patterns, each plate is different. Since they are hand-made, the same ones are not produced again. Therefore, each plate is an original work," he explained.
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Millefiori glass panelTurkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism
"Colorful discovery in ancient city of Andriake", Hürriyet Daily News:
Haberin Devamı
Cinnamon swirls...
Still haunted by an antique millefiori teacup I hesitated over buying and lost back when I was 20. That darned teacup still follows me.
The sign outside a Cinnabon shop...
Roman and Greek work. Turkey lives on stolen land, conquered by the Muslim sword and Ottoman hordes.
That would eerie... you get up in the night and have this feeling you’re being followed, turn quickly, there’s a “clink” noise... ;^)
The drummer relaxes and waits between shows for the cinnamon swirls.
Yes, this is 5th-6th century in date. Had the Byzantines done a better job at cultivating allies, particularly the Armenia which gave them breathing space as a buffer state, instead of undermining it and sacking their capital, the Roman Empire might have lasted longer than 1453.
I just watched “Ararat” last night. Outstanding movie about the Armenian genocide in 1915 by the Turk moslems (even thought Christianity vs Islam is barely mentioned)
I heard secondhand of a Christian tour group taking a bus to Ararat. At one point they were stopped by Turkish authorities and made to cover the windows and told not look outside the bus for the next however-many miles. Naturally they peeked. What they saw was heavy equipment digging and moving the soil, and that soil was full of recognizably human bones — skulls, jawbones, femurs, etc. The Turks were (re)covering the massive pits where slaughtered Armenians had been dumped. Evidently the gravesite had been revealed during a heavy rain. The Turks are truly nasty.
Yeah, it also didn’t help when the Crusaders sacked Constantinople and set up the Latin Empire in 1261... The subsequent fighting between the various Crusader fiefdoms and the Nicaean state took fifty years and led to a crumbling of defenses against the Turks.
Yup, plus, y’know, a big cannon blew huge holes in the massive walls of Constantinople.
In the movie “Ararat,” the young Armenian protagonist in the 1990s goes to Turkey to get some film footage for a movie they are producing about the genocide (that movie being produced in the movie is also called “Ararat).He visits Mt. Ararat but the Turkish army is guarding the mountain. He pays somebody to get him past the army to visit the what’s left of his ancestral town Van.
That movie depiction sounds consistent with your story about the Christian tour group.
I highly recommend the movie. It is complex and layered plus jumps around in time, so it can be a bit hard to follow. But, it all becomes clear as it progresses. The way they handled the historical flashbacks is amazing.
Clapping happily.
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