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ATHALARIC AND AMALASUNTHA – DETAILS FROM CONSUL ORESTES DYPTICH – YEAR 530, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON.
The representation of a young Athalaric, despite being limited to a small portrait, is evidence of the fact that Roman costumes were being abandoned by the Goths.
Their king wears an oriental type cloack that falls symmetrically on both sides as opposed to the buckled chlamys on the right shoulder.
His mother Amalasuntha is lavishly adorned with jewels: before coming to Italy the Goths were based by the black sea on the border with the Byzantine Empire by which they were heavily infuenced
