Five control stamps– monograms and busts– on the base of the vessel, within the foot ring. The stamps date the vessel to the early reign of Constans II (r. 641-668) (Dodd 1961: 216).  The niello floral wreath around the cross on the front of the plate cuts into the cross stamps, showing that the stamps were pressed before the imagery was created. There are several areas with graffiti and adscriptions; one adscription clearly reads the name, Theodoron (ΘΕΟΔΟΡΟΝ) (Dodd 1961: 216).

*Only mentioned in itemized  lists in K. V. Trever and V. G. Lukonin, Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987), 126; V. P. Darkevich, Khudozhestvennyi metall Vostoka VIII-XIII vv.: proizvedeniia vostochnoi torevtiki na territorii evropeiskoi chasti SSSR i Zaural’ia (Moscow: Nauka, 1976), 10.