Three-spouted vessel decorated with an elephant from Turushevy

Culture
Sogdian
Date
Late 8th or early 9th century
Medium
Silver with gilding
Dimensions
5.5 cm height; 8.4 cm diameter
Weight
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Form
Multi-Spout Vessel
Footless and Baseless
Inscription
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Graffiti
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Collection
State Hermitage Museum
FindSpot
Turushevy, Russia

Image credit

Author's own photograph

Notes on dating, attribution, imagery, or markings

Marshak attributes the vessel specifically to Chach (Marshak 1986, 433), and Darkevich groups it with other eastern Central Asian veseels (Darkevich 1976: 87, 91).

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The provenance is incorrect in Marshak 1986: № 111.

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Image credit

1-2: Author's own photograph; 3-5: Marshak 1986: № 111.

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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.

Additional Publications

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

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