Plate decorated with an eagle carrying a woman from Bol’shaia Anikovskaia

Culture
Sasanian
Date
6th to 7th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
22 cm diameter; 2.9 cm height
Weight
828.6 g
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
-
Graffiti
-
Collection
State Hermitage Museum
S-217
FindSpot
Bol’shaia Anikovskaia, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

For an in-depth technical analysis, see Trever and Lukonin 1987, Tablitsa XX.

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From Bol’shaia Anikovskaia II.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2: Author’s own photograph.

Bibliography

Inclusion in key Eurasian silver publications

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.

Lukonin (Loukonine), V. and A. Ivanov. Lost Treasures of Persia: Persian Art in the Hermitage Museum. Washington, D.C: Mage, 1996).

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.