Plate decorated with a hunter on horseback from Turushevy

Culture
Sasanian
Date
4th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
2.3-3.5 cm height; 22.9 cm diameter
Weight
838 g
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
-
Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-253
FindSpot
Turushevy, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

For an in-depth technical analysis, see Trever and Lukonin 1987: Tablitsa IV, s. 139; Harper and Meyers 1981: 182.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2: Author’s own photograph.

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Bibliography

Inclusion in key Eurasian silver publications

Harper, Prudence Oliver, and Pieter Meyers. Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in association with Princeton University Press, 1981.

Marshak, B. I. Istoriia vostochnoi torevtiki III-XIII vv. i problemy kul’turnoi preemstvennosti. Saint Petersburg: Akademiia Issledovaniia Kul’tury, 2017.

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

Trever, K. V., and V. G. Lukonin. Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987.

Additional Publications

Bortvin, N. N. “Po sledam vostochnykh karavanov.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 9/1935 (1935): 3-13.

Erdmann, Kurt. “Die sasanidischen Jagdschalen: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der iranischen Edelmetallkunst unter den Sasaniden.” Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 57 (1936): 193–232.

Overlaet, Bruno, ed. Splendeur des Sassanides: l’empire perse entre Rome et la Chine, 224-642. Brussels: Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, 1993.

Shmidt, A. V. “Raboty po istorii material’noi kul’tury Urala za 15 let.” Problemy istorii material’noi kul’tury 9-10 (1933): 25.