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ausjulius · 14th August 2006, 04:57 AM

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The same goes for niello - it has been long noticed that "circassian" niello is extremely similar to some very high quality examples of extremely old islamic niello works, yet again, besides areas surrounding Caucasus one can not find something quite similar. Did it come from south and died out everywhere but in Caucasus ? Or was it originally developed in Caucasus and sold everywhere else ? I don't know.[/QUOTE]

hi rivkin, you are correct, in that although many things can be presumed there is little one could say for shure...

the problem is with the nature of the caucascian people them selves, there has been little or no local documentation of the local history,,
and many nationalities possessed no written text even 150 years ago,,
also the religious and political and social systems were vry unstable ,, and fluctuated frequently,, sometime back form ecsample the chechens were christians for the most part,,,,,,,,, then they dropped the religion and wholely took up there local religion again ,, then finaly the converted to moslems,, this has been a common theem amongst many nationalities,, they change greatly fomr centuary to centuary..

14th August 2006, 04:57 AM	#13
ausjulius Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: musorian territory Posts: 415	[QUOTE= The same goes for niello - it has been long noticed that "circassian" niello is extremely similar to some very high quality examples of extremely old islamic niello works, yet again, besides areas surrounding Caucasus one can not find something quite similar. Did it come from south and died out everywhere but in Caucasus ? Or was it originally developed in Caucasus and sold everywhere else ? I don't know.[/QUOTE] hi rivkin, you are correct, in that although many things can be presumed there is little one could say for shure... the problem is with the nature of the caucascian people them selves, there has been little or no local documentation of the local history,, and many nationalities possessed no written text even 150 years ago,, also the religious and political and social systems were vry unstable ,, and fluctuated frequently,, sometime back form ecsample the chechens were christians for the most part,,,,,,,,, then they dropped the religion and wholely took up there local religion again ,, then finaly the converted to moslems,, this has been a common theem amongst many nationalities,, they change greatly fomr centuary to centuary..