Plate decorated with a hunter on horseback from Ufa

Culture
Sasanian
Date
7th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
20.3 cm diameter
Weight
772.5 g
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
-
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-297
FindSpot
Ufa, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

For an in-depth technical analysis, see Harper and Meyers 1981: 173.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2: Trever and Lukonin 1987: T. 20.

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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.

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

Additional Publications

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.

Voshchinina, A. I. “O sviaziakh Priural’ia s Vostokom v VI-VII vv. n. e.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia XVII (1953): 184-196.