Plate decorated with an armored rider from Til’tim

Culture
Ural-Hungarian
Date
9th or 10th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
17.5 cm diameter
Weight
-
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
-
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-207
FindSpot
Til’tim, Russia

Image credit

Marshak and Kramarovskii 1996: № 54.

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

An armored warrior rides a bridled horse who is adorned in pendant trappings. The large central image is heraldically encircled by a twisted rope border.

The dating of the late 9th to 10th century was proposed by Boris Marshak (Marshak 1986: 433).

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Image credit

1-2: Marshak and Kramarovskii 1996: № 54.

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.

Fedorova, N. V. Sokrovishcha Priob'ia: Zapadnaia Sibir' na torgovykh putiakh srednebekov'ia. Salakhard; Saint Petersburg, 2003.

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

Marshak (Marschak), B. I. Silberschätze des Orients: Metallkunst des 3.-13. Jahrhunderts und Ihre Kontinuität. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1986.

Marshak, B. I., and M. Kramarovskii, eds. Sokrovishcha Priob’ia. Saint Petersburg: Formika, 1996.

Smirnov, Ia. I. Vostochnoe serebro: atlasʺ drevnei serebrianoi i zolotoi posudy vostochnago proiskhozhdeniia naidennoi preimushchestvenno vʺ prědelakhʺ Rossiiskoi imperii. Saint Petersburg: Publishing House of the Imperial Archaeological Commission, 1909.

Additional Publications

Fedorova, N. V. “Importnoe serebro v Zapadnoi Sibiri.” In Khudozhestvennye pamiatniki i problemy kul’tury Vostoka, 125-133. Leningrad: Iskusstvo Publiching House, 1985.

Fedorova, N. “Silverware of ‘Magna Hungaria.’” In Congressus Septimus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, edited by Wolfgang Veenker. Hamburg: Societas Uralo-Altaica, 1990.

Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1898. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1901.

Ruttkay-Miklián, Eszter. Testi-Lelki Rokonság: A Szinjai Hantik Rokonsági Csoportjai. Budapest: L’Harmattan Kiadó, 2012.

Talitskaia, I. A. “Materialy k arkheologicheskoi karte Nizhnego i Srednego Priob’ia.” In Drevniaia Istoriia Nizhnego Priob’ia, 242-357. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, 1953.

Tobol’skii Gubernskii Myzei. Ezhegodnik Tobol’skogo Gubernskogo Myzeia Vol 13. Tobol’sk: 1902.