Bowl decorated with an eagle hunting a gazelle from Ufa

Culture
Sasanian
Date
7th to 8th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
12.5 cm diameter
Weight
310.4 g
Form
Bowl
Footless and Baseless
Inscription
-
Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-298
FindSpot
Ufa, Russia

Image credit

Author’s own photograph

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

For an in-depth technical analysis, see Trever and Lukonin 1987: Tablitsa XXI.

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Image credit

1: Author’s own photograph; 2-3: Trever and Lukonin 1987: T. 88; 4-5: Voshinina 1953: ris. 2-3.

Bibliography

Inclusion in key Eurasian silver publications

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

Trever, K. V., and V. G. Lukonin. Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987.

Additional Publications

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