Provenance
In 1886, a bucket decorated with a deer was found while plowing near an eroded ditch in the village of Shirokovskoe (Широковское), which sits along the Mostovka River, a tributary of the Iset’ River (Darkevich 1976, 44). The village was located in the Shardinskii County, (Шардинский Уезд) of the Perm Governorate (Пермская Губерния) of the Russian Empire. The bucket alongside the contents of the Shakharovo hoard were sent together to the Imperial Archaeological Commission in the same year (OAK 1882-1888, 1891). The Commission then transferred the bucket to the Imperial Hermitage Museum. The bucket remains housed in the renamed State Hermitage Museum.
The village is presently called Shirokovo (Широково) and is located in the Shatrovskii District (Шатровский Район), Kurgan Province/Oblast’ (Курганская Область), Russian Federation. There is notably still a Shirokovskoe in the neighboring Dalmatovskii District (Далматовский Район) of the same Kurgan Oblast’.
Technical Notes
silver / 21.4 cm diameter x 19.3 cm height
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. 12,1-3 № 80]
Marshak, B. I. Istoriia vostochnoi torevtiki III-XIII vv. i problemy kul’turnoi preemstvennosti. Saint Petersburg: Akademiia Issledovaniia Kul’tury, 2017. [ris. 65, 65a]
Marshak (Marschak), B. I. Silberschätze des Orients: Metallkunst des 3.-13. Jahrhunderts und Ihre Kontinuität. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1986. [№ 65]
Marshak, B. I. Sogdiiskoe serebro: ocherki po vostochnoi torevtike. Moscow: Nauka, 1971. [T. 35]
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. LXXV, LXXVI, LXXX № 134]
Additional Bibliography
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1882-1888. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1891.
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.
Image Credits
Featured Image
Ia. I. Smirnov, 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), № 134.
Page Images
Ia. I. Smirnov, 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), № 134.