Plate decorated with a battle at a fortress from Bol’shaia Anikovskaia

Culture
Semirech'e
Date
9th to 10th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
23.9 cm diameter
Weight
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
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Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-46
FindSpot
Bol’shaia Anikovskaia, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

This plate's imagery depicting scenes from the book of Joshua in the Bible is almost identical to another plate found in Verkhnenil’dino (Верхненильдина).

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From Bol’shaia Anikovskaia I.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2-4: Marshak 1986: № 210-211.

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.

Orbeli, I. A., and K. V. Trever. Sasanidskii metall khudozhestvennye predmenty iz zolota, serebra, i bronzy. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiia, 1935.

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.

Marshak, B. I. Iskusstvo Sogda. Saint Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishing House, 1999.

Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1909-1910. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1913.