Ufa (Уфа)

Hoard location

The following location names are the current location name in the official language of the current nation. If applicable, I use a common anglicized name but otherwise transliterate according to the American Library of Congress and provide the Cyrillic in parentheses.

city or village
Ufa (Уфа)
administrative district
Ufimskii District (Уфимский Район)
Federal subject
Bashkortostan Republic (Республика Башкортостан) / Bashkiria (Башкирия)
Country
Russia
Coordinates
54.732243° N, 56.030889° E
Historical Names & other location notes
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Provenance story

In 1941, government building construction workers found three vessels in the center of the city of Ufa (Уфа), then the Ufimskii District (Уфимский Район) of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic / Bashkir ASSR (Башкирская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика / Башкирская АССР) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. About 70 cm from the surface, a worker hit and damaged this lidded container with a shovel, but the other two vessels– a plate decorated with a hunting scene and a bowl with an eagle hunting a gazelle– were not damaged (Voshinina 1953: 183, 193). The items were brought to the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan in central Ufa. In 1945 the plate and the bowl were sent to the State Hermitage Museum, where they are still housed, while the lidded container fragment remains in Ufa.

Ufa is presently located in the Ufimskii District (Уфимский Район), Bashkortostan Republic (Республика Башкортостан) / Bashkiria (Башкирия), Russian Federation.

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Vessels from this hoard

Bibliography

Key Publications

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Other Publications

Voshchinina, A. I. “O sviaziakh Priural’ia s Vostokom v VI-VII vv. n. e.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia XVII (1953): 184-196.