Plate decorated with a rosette from Turushevy

Culture
Byzantine
Date
7th century
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
27.5 cm diameter
Weight
1036.5 g
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
Control stamps
Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
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FindSpot
Turushevy, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Five control stamps– monograms and busts– on the base of the vessel, within a ring inside of the footring. The stamps date the vessel to the early reign of Heraclius (r. 613-629/30) (Dodd 1961, 206).

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*Only mentioned in itemized  lists in K. V. Trever and V. G. Lukonin, Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987), 126; V. P. Darkevich, Khudozhestvennyi metall Vostoka VIII-XIII vv.: proizvedeniia vostochnoi torevtiki na territorii evropeiskoi chasti SSSR i Zaural’ia (Moscow: Nauka, 1976), 10.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2: Dodd 1961: № 72.

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.

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

Additional Publications

Bank, Alice V. Byzantine Art in the Collections of Soviet Museums. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1977.

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

Dodd, Erica Cruikshank. Byzantine Silver Stamps. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1961.

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