Bowl decorated with a rosette from Tomyz’

Culture
Semirech'e
Date
8th to 9th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
21.2 cm diameter; 4 cm height
Weight
Form
Bowl
Inscription
–
Graffiti
–
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
FindSpot
Tomyz', Russia

Image credit

Orbeli and Trever 1935: T. 34.

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Darkevich includes this plate in a group of vessels attributed to northern Central Asia: Semirech’e and Fergana (Darkevich 1976: 87).

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Image credit

1: Orbeli and Trever 1935: T. 34; 2: Smirnov 1909: № 103.

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.

Orbeli, I. A., and K. V. Trever. Sasanidskii metall khudozhestvennye predmenty iz zolota, serebra, i bronzy. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiia, 1935.

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 1893. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1895.