Lobed bowl decorated with a deer from Bol’shaia Anikovskaia

Culture
Sogdian
Date
7th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
19 cm diameter; 2.7 - 3 cm height
Weight
Form
Bowl
Inscription
-
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-218
FindSpot
Bol’shaia Anikovskaia, Russia

Image credit

Bijl and Boelens 2014: № 141.

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

From Bol’shaia Anikovskaia II.

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Image credit

1: Bijl and Boelens 2014: № 141; 2: Marshak 1971: T. 10.

Bibliography

Inclusion in key Eurasian silver publications

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.

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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Lunegov, I. A. “Anikovskie klady.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 12/1979 (1979): 35.

Trever, K. V. Novye Sasanidskie Bliuda Ermitazha. Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the SSSR and the State Hermitage, 1937.