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Provinces of the Late Roman Empire (1–500)
Sword [Celtic] Dragonesque Brooch [Provincial Roman, probably made in Britain] Terret (Rein Guide) [Celtic; Britain] Wing Fibula [Provincial Roman; Made in Pannonia] Mount [Probably made in Gaul] Brooch in the Shape of a Panther [Roman] Harness Decoration [Celtic or Roman] Six-Sided Container [Roman; Probably made in Gaul] Wine Dipper [Roman; Made in Gaul, found in Leyris, southern France]
Chariot Trappings [Provincial Roman, perhaps Thrace] Box with Sleeping Eros [Roman or Byzantine] Chariot Mount with Three Figures [Byzantine; Probably made in Gaul] Statuette of the Personification of Constantinople {Byzantine] Platter with Fish [Roman or Byzantine; Made in Gaul, possibly found in Grand, northwestern France]


Celtic Gaul, Britain, and Pannonia map

Area inhabited by Celtic-speaking peoples in Roman times (dashed line indicates the approximate northern boundary of the Roman empire and dependent territories in 1 A.D.).
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 The Roman empire's cultural, economic, and population centers were the great cities of the east. With the exception of Rome, the west was largely rural and agricultural. The wealthy elites of the western provinces of Gaul (now France, Switzerland, and Belgium) and Britain, many of whom owned estates worked by slaves and free Celtic peasants, patronized the workshops of local artists. They not only had a taste for luxury goods drawn from the Roman tradition, like silver and glass, but appreciated the enamelwork that had long been the specialty of Celtic craftsmen.


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