Provenance
In 1903 Afanasiia Pozdeeva found this vessel while working in the vegetable garden of a neighbor, Anna Pozdeeva, along the Shakva River in the village of Komarovo (Комарово) in the Kungurskii County (Кунгурский Уезд) of the Perm Governorate (Пермская Губерния) of the Russian Empire (Trever and Lukonin 1987, 125). For an unspecified amount of money, she sold the vessel to the Governor (Gubernator) of the Perm Governorate who sent it to the Imperial Archaeological Commission in Saint Petersburg. The Commission then gave the vessel to the Imperial Hermitage Museum in 1905. The plate is still housed in the renamed State Hermitage Museum with the number S-40.
Komarovo is presently located in the Kungurskii District (Кунгурский Район), Perm Province/Krai (Пермский Край), Russian Federation.
Technical Notes
silver with gilding / 21.8 cm diameter / 730.5 g weight
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. [T. 4,2 № 24]
Orbeli, I. A., and K. V. Trever. Sasanidskii metall khudozhestvennye predmenty iz zolota, serebra, i bronzy. Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiia, 1935. [T. 30]
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. [T. CXIV № 289]
Additional Bibliography
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1903. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1906.
Image Credits
Featured Image
K. V. Trever and V. G. Lukonin, Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987), T. 114.
Page Images
(1-2) K. V. Trever and V. G. Lukonin, Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987), T. 114.