Bucket from Turushevy

Culture
Semirech'e
Date
8th or 9th century
Medium
silver
Dimensions
30.7 cm length
Weight
1926 g
Form
Bucket
Inscription
Tamga
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-255
FindSpot
Turushevy, Russia

Image credit

Trever and Lukonin 1987: T. 120.

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Described by Darkevich as eastern Central Asian (Darkevich 1976: 10).

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Vasilii Leshchenko notes that the bucket has with at least two tamgas associated with the Ural region (Leshchenko 1974, 37).

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Trever, K. V., and V. G. Lukonin. Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987. [T. 120 № 46] *the catalog number is missing in the provenance section on 126 and incorrectly referenced as the Klimova bucket T50 in Sogdiiskoe serebro

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Image credit

1: Trever and Lukonin 1987: T. 120.

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.

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

Additional Publications

Bortvin, N. N. “Po sledam vostochnykh karavanov.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 9/1935 (1935): 3-13.

Leshchenko, V. Iu. Serebro Zakamskoe. Perm: Perm Book Publishing House, 1974.

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Shmidt, A. V. “Raboty po istorii material’noi kul’tury Urala za 15 let.” Problemy istorii material’noi kul’tury 9-10 (1933): 25.