Cup decorated with floral and faunal ornament from Tomyz’

Culture
Sogdian
Date
8th to 9th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
8.3 cm diameter; 5.8 cm height
Weight
Form
Cup
Footed
Inscription
–
Graffiti
–
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-32
FindSpot
Tomyz', Russia

Image credit

Bijl and Boelens 2014: № 146

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Based on the ornament, Boris Marshak first attributed this cup to the Khazars (Marshak 1986: 432); however, the form is common in Sogdian vessels (A. Torgoev in Bijl and Boelens 2014: № 146).

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Image credit

1-2: Bijl and Boelens 2014: № 146; 3: Marshak 1971: T. 40.

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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.

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

Bijl, Arnoud, and Birgit Boelens, eds. Expedition Silk Road: Journey to the West: Treasures from the Hermitage. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Hermitage, 2014.

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Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1893. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1895.