Plate decorated with a horse from Isaevo

Culture
Volga Bulgarian
Date
9th or 10th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
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Weight
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Form
Plate
Inscription
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Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
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FindSpot
Isaevo, Russia

Image credit

Smirnov, 1909: № 294.

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Darkevich discusses the cultural attribution of this plates and other vessels with similar mark making to the Volga Bulgars (Darkevich 1976: 170).

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Image credit

1: Smirnov, 1909: № 294.

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.

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 1902. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1904.

Talitskaia, I. A. Materialy k arkheologicheskoi karte basseina r. Kamy. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, 1952.