Adelaide. South Australian Museum. Poster for the Gallwoay Hoard Viking Exhibition. Silver Cross. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Adelaide. South Australian Museum. Poster for the Gallwoay Hoard Viking Exhibition. Silver Cross. / denisbin
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| 説明 | The Galloway Viking Hoard Exhibition Adelaide. Discovered in 2014 and buried around AD 900, the Galloway Hoard is an unparalleled collection of Viking-age objects. It contains a remarkable array of materials and craftsmanship, offering a rare glimpse into the wealth, trade networks, and cultural exchange of the era. The thrilling cache of silver bullion, gold, textiles, rock crystal and other rare artefacts had been buried more than 1,100 years ago, its unearthing prompting a major fundraising drive that allowed the collection to be retained for the British public instead of passing into private hands.The hoard was buried in four distinct parcels, each more intricate than the last. The top layer included silver bullion and a rare Anglo-Saxon cross, while the lower layers contained treasures such as a second, larger parcel of silver bullion wrapped in leather, a set of decorated silver arm-rings concealing a box of gold, and a silver-gilt vessel wrapped in textiles and packed with carefully curated objects. Items like beads, pendants, brooches, and silk-wrapped curios suggest that these objects were considered relics or heirlooms. A leather-wrapped bundle of silver ingots twice as large as the one above was found in the next layer, making up a total of over five kilograms of silver, the second largest cache found in the country since 1867. The way some of these silver pieces had been cut into certain weights suggested that instead of being the spoils of a Viking raid, this silver was used for trade.The third layer included a wooden box containing three artefacts of gold and four beautifully decorated silver ribbon arm-rings tied together. These are all on stunning display here, glowing with the warmth of high-quality gold: a large ring, an ingot and a breathtakingly beautiful pin in the shape of a flamingo-like bird, its markings outlined with a niello inlay of black paste of silver sulphide. The silver arm-rings are richly decorated with punch-tool marks, two of them with a serpent-like head biting their own tails, reminiscent of the ancient magical and alchemical symbol of the ouroboros – the snake eating its own tail. One of these arm rings was inscribed with unusual runes that researchers struggled to decipher until earlier this year. Rather than Norse, the runes were inscribed in Anglo-Saxon. Translated, they read: “This is the community’s wealth/property”, suggesting the hoard belonged to a religious community, although the reasons for its burial are still to be discovered.The fourth layer included a lidded silver gilt vessel wrapped in textiles and filled with beads, pendants, brooches, bracelets and other curios, some of which were so unusual — such as balls of dirt — that other examples were unknown not only in Europe, but internationally. The original vessel was too fragile to travel, but 3D composite renderings, CT scans, X-rays and one of the many explanatory videos in this exhibition allow a close examination of its external decorations and its contents. It was this vessel that provided the greatest surprise of all: its decorative inscriptions indicated the vessel to be of Sasanian origin, one of the last Persian imperial dynasties in what is present-day Iran. Microscopic analysis of the textiles revealed a mixture of fabrics, including a silk that would have been produced in Asia. These revelations up-ended what was previously known about the way people lived during the Viking Age (793 – 1066 CE) in Britain and Europe. Until this discovery it was thought that the furthest reach of Viking influence was to the west, but the Galloway Hoard showed that trade and travel in the Viking Age stretched just as far, along the Silk Road to the east. The balls of dirt contained inside the vessel were found to contain tiny flecks of gold; it is thought that these were made of the soil collected at sacred sites, perhaps as a memento or a relic. Along with these were beads, coins, pendants, just some of the unusual objects found in the hoard. |
| 撮影日 | 2025-05-04 12:10:23 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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