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Wealth of the Roman world : AD 300-700 / edited by J. P. C. Kent and K. S. Painter.

Contributor(s): Kent, J. P. C. (John Philip Cozens) | Painter, K. S | Kent, John, 1928-2000Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, c1977. Description: 192 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0714100625; 0714100617Subject(s): Goldwork -- Rome -- Exhibitions | Goldwork, Byzantine -- Exhibitions | Goldwork, Sassanid -- Exhibitions | Silverwork -- Rome -- Exhibitions | Silverwork, Byzantine -- Exhibitions | Silverwork, Sassanid -- ExhibitionsGenre/Form: Exhibition catalogsDDC classification: 739.2/094 LOC classification: NK7107.3 | .W42NK7107.3 | .W42 1977
Contents:
Foreword / by D.M. Wilson -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / by J.W. Brailsford -- The world of Late Antiquity, AD 300-700 / by J.P.C. Kent -- Gold and silver from the Late-Roman world: 4th-5th centuries / by K.S. Painter -- Catalogue -- The Colour plates -- Gold and silver from the Late-Roman workd: 6th-7th centuries / by K.S. Painter -- Catalogue -- Gold and silver from the Late-Roman world: beyond the frontiers / by K.S. Painter -- Catalogue -- Coinage and currency, AD 300-700 / by J.P.C. Kent -- Catalogue -- List of maps
Summary: 'The wealth of the Roman World AD 300-700', has been assembled to show the wealth of the ancient world as it entered into a period of barbaric invasion and taste. -- Foreword.
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Cover title: Wealth of the Roman world: Gold and silver, AD 300-700.

Exhibition catalog.

Bibliography: p. 189-190.

Foreword / by D.M. Wilson -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / by J.W. Brailsford -- The world of Late Antiquity, AD 300-700 / by J.P.C. Kent -- Gold and silver from the Late-Roman world: 4th-5th centuries / by K.S. Painter -- Catalogue -- The Colour plates -- Gold and silver from the Late-Roman workd: 6th-7th centuries / by K.S. Painter -- Catalogue -- Gold and silver from the Late-Roman world: beyond the frontiers / by K.S. Painter -- Catalogue -- Coinage and currency, AD 300-700 / by J.P.C. Kent -- Catalogue -- List of maps

'The wealth of the Roman World AD 300-700', has been assembled to show the wealth of the ancient world as it entered into a period of barbaric invasion and taste. -- Foreword.