Plate decorated with geometric ornament from Tomyz’

Culture
Byzantine
Date
7th century
Medium
Silver with niello
Dimensions
28 cm diameter
Weight
Form
Plate
Footed
Inscription
Control stamps
Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
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FindSpot
Tomyz', Russia

Image credit

State Hermitage Museum Website

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Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Four different control stamps– monograms and busts– on the base of the vessel, within the foot ring. The stamps date the vessel to the reign of Heraclius (613-629/30) (Dodd 1961: 201).

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*Only mentioned in itemized  lists in Trever and Lukonin, 1987: 124; Darkevich, 1976: 36.

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Image credit

1: State Hermitage Museum Website; 2: Dodd 1961: № 69.

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.

Orbeli, I. A., and K. V. Trever. Sasanidskii metall khudozhestvennye predmenty iz zolota, serebra, i bronzy. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiia, 1935.

Additional Publications

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

Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1893. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1895.