Nativity token (1973,0501.7)

Type: Portable Object
Tags: C5th-C6th, Christ, Late Antique, Manger, Nativity, Ox and Ass, Pilgrimage Object, Portable Object, Star, Terracotta, Token

Nativity token (BM 1973,0503.6)

Type: Portable Object
Tags: C5th-C6th, Christ, Late Antique, Manger, Nativity, Ox and Ass, Pilgrimage Object, Portable Object, Star, Terracotta, Token

Nativity token (BM 1973,0501.5)

Type: Portable Object
Tags: C5th-C6th, Christ, Crescent Moon, Late Antique, Manger, Nativity, Ox and Ass, Pilgrimage Object, Portable Object, Star, Terracotta, Token, Virgin Mary

Nativity token (BM 1973,0501.4)

Type: Portable Object
Tags: C5th-C6th, Christ, Crescent Moon, Late Antique, Manger, Nativity, Ox and Ass, Pilgrimage Object, Portable Object, Star, Token, Virgin Mary

Annunciation token (BM 1973,0501.3)

Type: Portable Object
Tags: Angel Gabriel, Annunciation, C5th-C6th, Late Antique, Pilgrimage Object, Portable Object, Terracotta, Token, Virgin Mary, Wool & Basket

Annunciation token (BM 1973,0501.2)

Type: Portable Object
Tags: Angel Gabriel, Annunciation, C5th-C6th, Cross, Late Antique, Pilgrimage Object, Portable Object, Terracotta, Token, Virgin Mary, Wool & Basket

The Bolnisi Stela

Stelae and carved stone crosses are a common phenomenon in early Christian Kartli. They are believed to date between the C5th and C10th. One of the earliest and most well-known is the stela from Bolnisi in Kvemo Kartli which has been ascribed a date of the C5th-C6th and which is now housed in the Shalva Amiranashvili State Museum of Art in Tbilisi.

Type: Museum Exhibit
Tags: Bolnisi, C5th-C6th, Georgia, Kvemo Kartli, Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Art, Stela, Tbilisi

Dayr es Salib

The basilica at Dayr es Salib has an almost square floorplan and is believed to date to the C5th-C6th. The remains of a Greek-style ambon and a cruciform baptismal font are still in situ at the site.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Ambon, Architecture, Baptismal Font, Basilica, C5th-C6th, Church, Dayr es Salib, Syria

Defensive walls, Towers and town, Halabiyeh/Zenobia

Type: Architecture
Tags: Anastasius, C5th-C6th, Church, Defensive Network, Justinian, Military Architecture, Procopius, Roman, Syria

St. Nicholas/Gemiler Island

Gemiler Island is dotted with several late antique church's from the 4th-6th century AD and is believed to have been the original burial site of St Nicholas, the 4th century AD Bishop of Myra. A covered processional walkway leads to the uppermost and largest church on the island which is cut into the summit of the hill. Fresco's and writing are still visible on portions of one of the lower churches. By the sea, facing the mainland and partially submerged, lie the remains of relatively small structures cut into the rock, likely houses and or shops. Large cisterns are also to be found, presumably to provide fresh water to the permanent monastic population that would have occupied the island and to thirsty pilgrims to the site.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, C4th-C5th, C5th-C6th, Church, St. Nicholas