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King Khosro I engraved in rock crystal, set in an openwork gold frame inlaid<br />
with engraved discs of garnets and rock-crystal, and green glass. The original was<br />
probably made in the sixth century AD in Sasanian Persia, and may have been taken<br />
to France after Constantinople was captured in the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Forming<br />
part of the St Denis treasure, the original is now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.<br />
It is too fragile to travel to the forthcoming exhibition Imagining the Divine, curated<br />
by the Empires of Faith team and opening at the Ashmolean on 19 October, so the<br />
Lorne Thyssen Fund for Ancient World Studies supported the creation of the replica.<br />
Members of the audience were thrilled to see it, still damp from its final decoration.<br />
Replica of the Khosro Cup<br />
Photo by Rachel Wood<br />
Our Mougins Museum Junior Research Fellow Dr Diana Rodriguez Perez served<br />
as a member of the organizing committee of a conference celebrating the ninetieth<br />
birthday of the distinguished classical archaeologist Professor Sir John Boardman,<br />
with a major international conference in early May <strong>2017</strong> at the Gulbenkian<br />
Foundation, Lisbon, in which Susan Walker presented a paper. Dr Rodriguez Perez<br />
was awarded an AWRC grant to assist with publication of a book, as were Penny<br />
Coombes, a DPhil student at Wolfson who played a major role in the administration<br />
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