Plate decorated with a hunter on foot from Bol’shaia Anikovskaia

Culture
Sasanian
Date
5th to 6th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
24.6 cm diameter ; 2.3 cm height
Weight
1011 g
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
Tamga
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-216
FindSpot
Bol’shaia Anikovskaia, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

A monogram (tamga?) is located on the back of the vessel (Trever and Lukonin 1987: 126).

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For an in-depth technical analysis, see Trever and Lukonin 1987: Tablitsa XIX; Harper and Meyers 1981: 177.

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From Bol’shaia Anikovskaia II.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2-3: Author's own photographs.

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.

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

Additional Publications

Lunegov, I. A. “Anikovskie klady.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 12/1979 (1979): 35.

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.

Trever, K. V. Novye Sasanidskie Bliuda Ermitazha. Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the SSSR and the State Hermitage, 1937.