Plate decorated with biblical scenes from Grigorova

Culture
Semirech'e
Date
9th or 10th century
Medium
silver with gilding
Dimensions
2.7 cm height; 23 cm diameter
Weight
977 g
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
Syriac
Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
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FindSpot
Grigorova, Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

See discussion and translation of the Syriac inscription in Zalesskaia 2013: 331; Khvol’son, Pokrovskii, Smirnov 1899: 2-3.

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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.

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.

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

Darkevich, V. P., and B. I. Marshak. “O tak nazyvaemom Siriiskom bliude iz Permskoi Oblasti.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia, no. 2 (1974): 213–22.

Khvol’son, D. A., N. V. Pokrovskii, and Ia. I. Smirnov. Serebrianoe Siriiskoe Bliudo, Naidennoe v Permskom Krae. ‘Materialy po Arkheologii Rossii’ Series 22. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1899.

Zalesskaia, V. N. “K interpretatsii siuzheta na nestorianskom diskose iz sela Grigorovskoe.” In Sogdiitsy, ikh predshestvenniki, sovremenniki u nasledniki, 331-338. Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXII. Saint Petersburg: Publishing House of the State Hermitage, 2013.