IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1603: Byzantine Studies in China, II: On the Sea Route of the Silk Road
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Lin Ying, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, China |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Stefanos Kordosis, Department of Hellenic Civilization, Hellenic Open University, Greece |
| Respondent: | Rebecca Darley, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Paper 1603-a | The Daqin Lamp and Chinese Sources on the Contact between South-East Asia and Late Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Other, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 1603-b | The Tibetan Title Dru gu Gesar (Caesar of the Turks) in the Northern Branch of the Silk Route and the Role of the Khazars (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Other, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1603-c | Reconsideration on the Embassies between Byzantium and Western Turks (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Other, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This panel continues an existing collaboration between scholars at Sun Yat-Sen University and Birkbeck to consider artefactual evidence for the maritime Silk Roads. It will present a series of artefacts, coins by Lin Ying and a lamp by Xue-fei Han, which moved around the eastern and western Indian oceans and explore the meaning of these objects for their recipients and users. |