Major Eurasian Silver Publications are ten key books that are dedicated to and invaluable for the study of 3rd- to 13th-century silver vessels from hoards. The Additional Bibliography is a compilation of all publications– books, catalogs, and articles– currently included on object pages, whether cited for further reading or for a caption credit. Doctoral Dissertations group together doctoral research projects dedicated to Eurasian silver.
*If Russian or Ukrainian, I transliterate the Cyrillic script according to the American Library Association and Library of Congress (ALA and LC), but without the diacritical circumflex over ts for ц, iu for ю, ia for я, ie for Ukrainian э, and ie for pre-reformed Russian ҍ; the breve ĭ for й; and the dotted ė for Russian э, ḟ for pre-reformed ѳ, and ẏ for pre-reformed ѵ.
Major 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.
Harper, Prudence Oliver, and Pieter Meyers. Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, published in association with Princeton University Press, 1981.
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. Sogdiiskoe serebro: ocherki po vostochnoi torevtike. Moscow: Nauka, 1971.
Marshak, B. I., and M. Kramarovskii, eds. Sokrovishcha Priob’ia. Saint Petersburg: Formika, 1996.
Orbeli, I. A., and K. V. Trever. Sasanidskii metall khudozhestvennye predmenty iz zolota, serebra, i bronzy. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiia, 1935.
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.
Trever, K. V., and V. G. Lukonin. Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987.
Doctoral Dissertations
Chichko, T. V. “Vostochnaia torevtika v sistema kul’turnykh sviazei i voenno-politicheskoi istorii naseleniia Prikam’ia i Priural’ia v rannem srednevekov’e: konets VI – perviia polovina IX vv.” Doctoral Dissertation, Institute of History named after Shigabutdin Mardzhini, Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences, 2016.
Leshchenko, V. Iu. “Vostochnye klady na Urale v VII-XIII vv. (po nakhodkam khudozhestvennoi utvari).” Doctoral Dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, SSSR Academy of Sciences, 1971.
Additional Bibliography
Adamova, A. T., and A. B. Nikitin, eds. Iran v Ermitazhe: Formirovanie kollektsii. Saint Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishing House, 2004.
Bank, Alice V. Byzantine Art in the Collections of Soviet Museums. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1977.
van Berchem, Max. “Inscriptions mobilières arabes en Russie.” Journal Asiatique, série X, volume XIV (1909): 401-413.
Bieńkowski, Piotr. ‘O Skarbie Srebrnym z Choniakowa na Wolyniu’. Światowit 13 (1929): 149–81.
Bijl, Arnoud, and Birgit Boelens, eds. Expedition Silk Road: Journey to the West: Treasures from the Hermitage. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Hermitage, 2014.
Bortvin, N. N. “Po sledam vostochnykh karavanov.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 9/1935 (1935): 3-13.
de Brosses, Charles (le Président de Brosses). “Description d’un vase et de quatre manuscrits: nouvellement trouvés en Sibérie.” Histoire de l’Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, avec les Mémoires de littérature tirés des registres de cette académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres XXX (recorded 1755/published 1764), 777-801.
Brunner, Christopher J. “Middle Persian Inscriptions on Sasanian Silverware.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 9 (1974): 109–21.
Darkevich, V. P., and B. I. Marshak. “O tak nazyvaemom Siriiskom bliude iz Permskoi Oblasti.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia, no. 2 (1974): 213–22.
Demange, Françoise, ed. Les Perses sassanides: Fastes d’un empire oublié (224-642). Paris: Musée Cernuschi, 2006.
Dodd, Erica Cruikshank. Byzantine Silver Stamps. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1961.
Erdmann, Kurt. “Die sasanidischen Jagdschalen: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der iranischen Edelmetallkunst unter den Sasaniden.” Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 57 (1936): 193–232.
Grabar, Oleg. Sasanian Silver: Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Arts of Luxury from Iran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1967.
Gunter, Ann Clyburn, and Paul Jett, eds. Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. ; Mainz, Germany: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; Distributed by P. von Zabern, 1992.
Harper, Prudence Oliver. ‘Thrones and Enthronement Scenes in Sasanian Art’. Iran 17 (1979): 49–64.
Hensellek, Betty. “The Lives of a Silver Saiga: A Biography of the Khoniakiv Silver Hoard.” Forthcoming in Essays on the Art of Ancient West and Central Asia Presented to Prudence Oliver Harper, edited by B. Hensellek and J. A. Lerner.
Herzfeld, Ernst. “Sie sasanidischen Quadrigae solis et lunae.” Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran II (1930): 128–31.
Herzfeld, Ernst. “Der Thron des Khusro.” Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen XLI (1920): 103–47.
Khanenko, V. N. Sobranie B. I. i V. N. Khanenko: drevnosti pridněirov’ia, Vol. 4. Kyiv: Fototipiia S. V. Kul’zhenko, 1901.
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.
von Köhler, Heinrich Karl Ernst. “Über die Denkmäler der Altertums aus Silber in der Sammlung des Herrn Grafen von Stroganow.” H. K. E. Köhler’s Gesammelte Schriften, edited by Ludolf Stephani, 41-53. Volume 6. Saint Petersburg: Druckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1853 (reprint from the Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1803).
Kyzlasov, I. L. Runicheskie pis’mennosti evraziiskikh stepei. Moscow: Vostochnaia Literatura RAH, 1994.
Leshchenko, V. Iu. “Ispol’zovanie vostochnogo serebra na Urale.” In Khudozhestvennyi metall Vostoka VIII-XIII vv.: proizvedeniia vostochnoi torevtiki na territorii evropeiskoi chasti SSSR i Zaural’ia, by V. P. Darkevich, 176-188. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.
Leshchenko, V. Iu. Serebro Zakamskoe. Perm: Perm Book Publishing House, 1974.
Livshits, Vladimir. “Three Silver Bowls from the Isakovka Burial-Ground No. 1 with Khwarezmian and Parthian Inscriptions.” Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 9, no. 1–2 (2003): 147–72.
Livshits, V. A., and V. G. Lukonin. “Srednepersidskie i Sogdiiskie nadpisi na serebrianykh sosudakh.” Vestnik Drevnei Istorii, no. 3 (1964): 155-176.
Lukonin (Loukonine), V. and A. Ivanov. Lost Treasures of Persia: Persian Art in the Hermitage Museum. Washington, D.C: Mage, 1996).
Lunegov, I. A. “Anikovskie klady.” Ural’skii Sledopyt 12/1979 (1979): 35.
Majda, Tadeusz, ed. Masterpieces of Persian art from Polish Collections. 2 vols. Tehran: Moassesseh Matn, 2013.
Marshak, B. I. Iskusstvo Sogda. Saint Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishing House, 1999.
Marshak, Boris. “Late-Antique Silver.” In Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family, edited by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, 100-103. Portland: Portland Art Museum in collaboration with Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Marshak, B. I. “Serebrianye sosudy X-XI vv.: ikh znachenie dlia periodizatsii iskusstva Irana i Srednei Azii.” In Iskusstvo i arkheologiia Irana. Vol. II, 148-173. Moscow: Nauka, 1976.
Marshak, B. I. “Vliianie torevtiki ha Sogdiiskiu keramiku VII-VIII vekov.” Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha 5 (1961): 177–201.
Matsulevich (Matzulewitsch), Leonid. Byzantinische Antike: Studien auf Grund der Silbergefässe der Ermitage. Berlin; Leipzig: W. de Gruyter & Co., 1929.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi komissii za 1874 god. Saint Petersburg, 1877.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii 1878 i 1879. Saint Petersburg, 1881.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1882-1888. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1891.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1892. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1894.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1893. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1895.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1896. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1898.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1900. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1902.
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Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1907. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1910.
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1909-1910. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1913.
Otchet Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1913-1915. Petrograd: Deviataia Gosudarstvennaia Tipografiia, 1918.
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.
Pchelina, E. G. “Ursdonskoe ushchel’e v Severnoi Osetii.” Trudy otdela Vostoka Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha 4 (1947): 135-154.
Pope, Arthur Upham, and Phyllis Ackerman, eds. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
Pugachenkova, G. A., and L. I. Rempel’. Ocherki iskusstvo Srednei Azii: drevnost’ i srednevekov’e. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1982.
Shmidt, A. V. “Raboty po istorii material’noi kul’tury Urala za 15 let.” Problemy istorii material’noi kul’tury 9-10 (1933): 25.
Talitskaia, I. A. Materialy k arkheologicheskoi karte basseina r. Kamy. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, 1952.
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.
Trever, K. V. Novye Sasanidskie bliuda Ermitazha. Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the SSSR and the State Hermitage, 1937.
Trever, K. V. “Sasanidskii Serebrianyi kubok iz Ursdonskogo ushchel’ia v Severnoi Osetii.” Trudy otdela Vostoka Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha 4 (1947): 119-132.
Trever, K. V. Senmurv-Paskudzh, Sobaka-Ptitsa. Leningrad: State Hermitage Publishing House, 1937.
Voshinina, A. I. “O sviaziakh Priural’ia s Vostokom v VI-VII vv. n. e.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia XVII (1953): 184-196.
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.
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