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Coin3095/1493

Byzantine coin of Alexius I, 1081-1118. Obverse: bust of Christ, facing front; he has a nimbus cruciger around his head, which is a cross within a halo; to left, ‘IC’; to right, ‘XC’. Reverse: bust of Alexius I, facing front; he wears a jewelled chlamys; to left, he holds a long cross; to right, he holds a globus cruciger. The inscription on the obverse in translation says ‘Jesus Christ’.

Culture
Byzantine
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Thessalonica, Greece
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coin3095/1492

Byzantine coin of Alexius I, 1081-1118. Obverse: Christ, enthroned. Reverse: bust of Alexius I, facing front; he wears a jewelled chlamys; to left, he holds a cruciform sceptre; to right, he holds a globus cruciger; to left, inscription says ‘Λ’.

Culture
Byzantine
Material
silver metal
Made in
Istanbul, Turkey and Constantinopolis, Turkey
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coin3095/1491

Byzantine coin of John II, 1118-1143. Obverse: Christ, standing on a footstool and facing front; he has a nimbus cruciger around his head, which is a cross within a halo; he raises his right hand in benediction; in his left hand, he holds the Book of Gospels; to left, inscription says ‘IC’; to right, ‘XC’. Reverse: John II, standing and facing front; to left, he holds a cruciform sceptre; to right, he holds a globus cruciger; to right, inscription says 'TWΠ'. The inscription on the obverse in translation says ‘Jesus Christ.’

Culture
Byzantine
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Istanbul, Turkey and Constantinopolis, Turkey
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coin3095/1490

Byzantine coin of Manuel I, 1143-1180. Obverse: large cross resting on two steps; at centre of cross, there is an ‘X’; to left, inscription says ‘IC’; to right, ‘[XC]’. Reverse: bust of Manuel I, facing front; he wears a loros, an embroidered and jewelled scarf; to left, he holds a labarum, which is a military standard; to right, he holds a globus cruciger. The inscription on the obverse in translation says 'Jesus Christ'.

Culture
Byzantine
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Thessalonica, Greece
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Coin3095/1489

Byzantine coin of Manuel I, 1143-1180. Obverse: large cross resting on two steps; at centre of cross, there is an ‘X’; to left, inscription says ‘IC’; to right, ‘XC’. Reverse: bust of Manuel I, facing front; to left, he holds a labarum, which is a military standard. The inscription on the obverse in translation says 'Jesus Christ'.

Culture
Byzantine
Material
bronze metal
Made in
Thessalonica, Greece
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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EarringsAj147 a-b

Pair of plain, round, tin metal earrings with metal hoops attached at tops and covered with material. Part a has leather covering the hoop, and part b has brown-yellow rubber covering the hoop. The small groove in each earring is filled with dirt in some areas.

Culture
Karamojong
Material
tin metal, leather skin and rubber
Made in
Uganda
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAa40 a-b

Metal double-barbed point (part a) with rough metal shaft (part b), fitted and sinew-wrapped in socket of shaped wooden section. This is inserted into a reed section, sinew-wrapped and glued with pitch. Intermittent wrappings of sinew continue down length of shaft. The end of the reed is notched.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
metal, wood, reed grass, sinew, adhesive and poison resin
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowAa39 a-b

Metal double-barbed point (part a) with a bark-covered fore-shaft, fitted into a sinew-wrapped reed (part b). The arrow is a series of reed and wood fitted together and glued with black pitch. The reed sections have further pitch-blackened sinew wrapping at the centre, end, and near the bark fore-shaft.

Culture
Khoisan ?
Material
reed grass, wood, metal, bark, sinew and adhesive
Made in
Botswana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ornament3171/4

Woman's dress ornament. A single piece of dark purple cord is heavily knotted into three descending ‘t’ shaped patterns. Below, the cord is tied in such a way as to allow it to fall into eighteen long loops that are wrapped at top and bottom with gold metallic wire. The ends of the cord hang between these loops. A round, textured metal broach is attached above the ornament’s midpoint. At its centre sits a jade rose holding two small metal leaves. At the back of the brooch is a stick pin.

Culture
Korean
Material
synthetic fibre, metal and jade mineral
Made in
Seoul, Korea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Tool3110/21

Long, thin metal tool with a hole in one end and a darkened metal tip at the other. The smaller end of the tool has a small circular knob topped with a larger ball with a hole through it. The shaft is thin and widens slightly at the darkened end.

Culture
Chinese
Material
metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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