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An early gold fibula (a decorative pin/a brooch for fastening garments) in the form of a cross. It's inlaid with garnets, glass, enamel, and a intaglio showing Cupid.
Whether the depiction of the Roman deity was interpreted within a Christian context, viewed as a valuable rarity, or believed to possess apotropaic value (i. e. to avert evil) remains unknown.
Found in a woman's grave in Lauchheim, ca 690 AD.

On display at www.thehiddenlaend.de
in Stuttgart.

Nothing to see here, just illustration depicting paddle wheels propelled warship… what, so the paddle ships were invented in ?

No, of course not, don't be silly. It's only a picture, illustration to treatise from 4th/5th century AD, De Rebus Bellicis (~On Matters of Wars). What do the bovines do there? Well, the paddle wheels have to be propelled somehow. Heavy beasts on trotting wheels would provide enough “oxpower”.

As far as I know the design was never built.