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Harper and Meyers 1981: pl. 21.
Prudence Harper places this plate in her hunting plates group II, those plates with kings wearing crowns that are similar to those on Sasanian coins and monuments (Harper 1981: 57, 70).
Anthropomorphic and zoic imagery was later carved into the front and back of the plate. Sun disks, animals, and the upper bodies of humans with raised arms were carved around the hunter and bears on the front of the plate. On the back of the plate are three large figures: all three wear a crenulated headgear and two raise their hands with bladed tools or weapons. An eight-armed rosette was carved into the center, and small animals and humans were added around the large figures (Leshchenko 1976, 177: ris. 21).
From Bol’shaia Anikovskaia IV.
1: Harper and Meyers 1981: pl. 21; 2-4: Leshchenko 1976: ris. 21.
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.
Leshchenko, V. Iu. “Ispol’zovanie vostochnogo serebra na Urale,” in Khudozhestvennyi metall Vostoka VIII-XIII vv.: proizvedeniia vostochnoi torevtiki na territorii evropeiskoi chasti SSSR i Zaural’ia by V. P. Darkevich, 176-188. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.
Lunegov, I. A. “Anikovskie klady.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 12/1979 (1979): 35.