Lobed cup decorated with floral and faunal ornament from Tomyz’

Culture
Sogdian
Date
8th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
10.5 cm diameter; 6.7 cm height
Weight
Form
Cup
Footed
Inscription
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Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
FindSpot
Tomyz', Russia

Image credit

Author’s own photograph

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Boris Marshak notes that it could potentially also be from Chach to the north (Marshak 1986: 430).

Very similar to another lobed cup with only floral decoration from the same hoard.

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Image credit

1-2: Author's own photograph; 3: Marshak 1971: T. 53; 4-6: Smirnov 1909: № 113.

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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.

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.