Byzantine Weapons and Warfare

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Following up, all I could find was this on-line.
http://www.s155239215.onlinehome.us/tur ... entsEn.htm
While not specifically mentioning this exact plate, this suggests that the plates were not dug up in controled in-archeological-context digs, but just appeared, plowed up or whatever. Further, it states that most of the local items are 5-7th C. and that the byzantine items are later. So the dating is presumabally by an expert looking at the style or manufacture and also at the style of items depicted. So, experts, do you think the 550 date is right?

Tell me, do you think the date is right? the helmets are surely of the earlier type, but how about the harness aka varangian bra? I have been focusing mostly on 9-12 th c. research lately so I don't know, but I thought the fully developed harness of this form was much later than 6th C. .

I'm afraid the dating for the Silver, repousse dish from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg depicting Achilles and Briseis is about 550. It was found near near Kungur, Perm.
[url:3efa5lma]http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/shm/shm0632.jpg[/url]