Lidded container from Ufa

Culture

Finno-Ugrian

Date

6th to 7th century

Medium

Low-quality silver or copper

Dimensions

4.6 cm height; 6 cm diameter

Weight

Form

Container

Lidded

Inscription

Graffiti

Collection

National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan

4075/2-ИО

FindSpot

Ufa, Russia

Image credit

Voshchinina, 1953: ris. 7.

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

*Only mentioned in an itemized list in Trever and Lukonin 1987: 126.

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Voshchinina connected this vessel with the Bakhmutino culture (Бахмутинская культура) (Voshchinina 1953, 195).

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Image credit

1: Voshchinina, 1953: ris. 7.

Bibliography

Inclusion in key Eurasian silver publications

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.