Conveners
S74. MIDDLE AGES 12. ASIA
- Helen Wang (British Museum)
A wreck with its entire cargo was discovered in 2004 in the Java Sea off the town of Cirebon. Chinese coins found on board helped to date the shipwreck to the 10th century. The main cargo consisted of iron ore, tin and silver ingots and ceramics from China and present-day Thailand. The accompanying cargo consisted of semi-precious stones, objects made of gold and other metals, glass beads of...
A unique manuscript kept in the Matenadaran in Yerevan shows that towards the end of the rule of the Qara Qoyunlu Jahan Shah (1438-1467), in 1465 the Armenian nobility declared Smbat from the Artsrunid house of Sefedinian the king of Armenia. His power, which apparently lasted only two years, extended to Akdamar Island, Van and Vostan cities. The two cities represented a single unified fief...
Bengal, a provincial kingdom of medieval India flourishing since early 13th century had a significant and consistent coinage of its governors and sultans from the very beginning of the Sultanate. A comparative study of this coinage reveals marked influence from the coinage of Seljuq Sultans of Rum (Anatolia) confirmed by the use from the beginning of the horse rider motif, the legend pattern...
