Pitcher decorated with calligraphic ornament from Bol’shaia Anikovskaia

Culture
Early Islamic Iran
Date
10th to 12th century
Medium
Silver with gilding and niello
Dimensions
22.5 cm height
Weight
-
Form
Pitcher
Inscription
Arabic
Graffiti
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Collection
FindSpot
Bol’shaia Anikovskaia, Russia

Image credit

Darkevich 1976: T. 32,1.

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

The two registers of calligraphic ornament in Kufic (Arabic) circling around the body of the vessel are about prosperity and happiness (Darkevich 1976: 30); the small inscription on the handle reads, “Eat and drink to your health,” (Marshak 1976: 166).

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From Bol’shaia Anikovskaia III.

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Image credit

1: Darkevich 1976: T. 32,1; 2-3: Cherdyn’ Regional Museum Website; 4: Darkevich 1976: T. 32,2.

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.

Additional Publications

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

Marshak, B. I. “Serebrianye sosudy X-XI vv.: ikh znachenie dlia periodizatsii iskusstva Irana i Srednei Azii.” In Iskusstvo i arkheologiia Irana. Vol. II, 148-173. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.