Rhyton in the Shape of a Saiga Antelope Head from Khoniakiv

Provenance

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Technical Notes

silver with gilding / ~28 cm height x 18 cm width (identical or very close to these measurements for the Rhyton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Major Eurasian Silver Publications

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. XLIII, ris. 11-12]

Additional Bibliography

Bieńkowski, Piotr. ‘O Skarbie Srebrnym z Choniakowa na Wolyniu’. Światowit 13 (1929): 149–181.

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.

Image Credits

Featured Image

Piotr Bieńkowski, ‘O Skarbie Srebrnym z Choniakowa na Wolyniu’, Światowit 13 (1929): tab. VI.

Page Images

(1) Piotr Bieńkowski, ‘O Skarbie Srebrnym z Choniakowa na Wolyniu’, Światowit 13 (1929): tab. VI.

(2) 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. XLIII, ris. 11-12]