Bucket decorated with a deer from Shirokovo

Culture
Sogdian
Date
8th or 9th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
19.3 cm height; 21.4 cm diameter
Weight
–
Form
Bucket
Inscription
-
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
FindSpot
Shirokovo, Russia

Image credit

Smirnov 1909: № 134.

‍

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Marshak suggests Sogdian or Ustrashana (Marshak 1986: 431), and Darkevich includes the bucket with vessels from Semirech'e and Fergana (Darkevich 1976: 87).

‍

Marshak dates the vessel to the late 8th or early 9th century (Marshak 1986: 431).

Image Gallery

Click on the images below for a larger view to explore the object's details.
No items found.

Image credit

1-3: Smirnov 1909: № 134; 4: Marshak 1971: T. 35.

‍

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.

Marshak, B. I. Sogdiiskoe serebro: ocherki po vostochnoi torevtike. Moscow: Nauka, 1971.

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 1882-1888. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1891.

Talitskaia, I. A. “Materialy k arkheologicheskoi karte Nizhnego i Srednego Priob’ia.” In Drevniaia Istoriia Nizhnego Priob’ia, 242-357. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, 1953.