Bowl decorated with a lion from Isaevo

Culture
Ural-Hungarian
Date
9th or 10th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
17.8 cm diameter
Weight
-
Form
Bowl
Footless
Inscription
-
Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
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FindSpot
Isaevo, Russia

Image credit

Marshak 1986: № 121.

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Marshak suggested that the bowl is a Ural-Hungarian imitation of a Central Asian bowl (Marshak 1986: 433).

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Image credit

1, 3: Marshak 1986: № 121-121; 2: Smirnov 1909: № 290.

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Bibliography

Inclusion in key Eurasian silver publications

Darkevich, V. P. Khudozhestvennyi metall Vostoka VIII-XIII vv.: proizvedeniia vostochnoi torevtiki na territorii evropeiskoi chasti SSSR i Zaural’ia. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.

Marshak, B. I. Istoriia vostochnoi torevtiki III-XIII vv. i problemy kul’turnoi preemstvennosti. Saint Petersburg: Akademiia Issledovaniia Kul’tury, 2017.

Marshak (Marschak), B. I. Silberschätze des Orients: Metallkunst des 3.-13. Jahrhunderts und Ihre Kontinuität. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1986.

Smirnov, Ia. I. Vostochnoe serebro: atlasʺ drevnei serebrianoi i zolotoi posudy vostochnago proiskhozhdeniia naidennoi preimushchestvenno vʺ prědelakhʺ Rossiiskoi imperii. Saint Petersburg: Publishing House of the Imperial Archaeological Commission, 1909.

Additional Publications

Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1902. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1904.

Talitskaia, I. A. Materialy k arkheologicheskoi karte basseina r. Kamy. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, 1952.