Bucket decorated with a rosette from Tomyz’

Culture
Sogdian
Date
8th to 9th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
ca. 20 cm diameter
Weight
Form
Bucket
Inscription
Graffiti
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
FindSpot
Tomyz', Russia

Image credit

Smirnov 1909: № 113.

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Boris Marshak notes that it could be from Sogdiana or Ustrushana (Marshak 1986: 430).

Also, note that the hoard is mislabeled as Klimova in Marshak 1986: № 47 and Marshak 2017: ris. 47 (a bucket was also found in the Klimova hoard: Marshak 2017, ris. 257).

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Image credit

1: Marshak 1971: ris. 17; 2: Marshak 1971: T. 38; 3: Smirnov 1909: № 113.

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