Provenance
In 1941, government building construction workers found three vessels in the center of the city of Ufa (Уфа), then the Ufimskii District (Уфимский Район) of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic / Bashkir ASSR (Башкирская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика / Башкирская АССР) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. About 70 cm from the surface, a worker hit and damaged this lidded container with a shovel, but the other two vessels– a plate decorated with a hunting scene and a bowl with an eagle hunting a gazelle– were not damaged (Voshinina 1953, 183, 193). The items were brought to the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan in central Ufa. In 1945 the plate and the bowl were sent to the State Hermitage Museum, where they are still housed, while the lidded container fragment remains in Ufa. The lidded container has the number 4075/2-ИО.
Ufa is presently located in the Ufimskii District (Уфимский Район), Bashkortostan Republic (Республика Башкортостан) / Bashkiria (Башкирия), Russian Federation.
Technical Notes
low-quality silver or copper (Voshinina 1953, 193) / 4.6 cm height x 6 cm diameter
Major Eurasian Silver Publications
*Only mentioned in an itemized list in K. V. Trever and V. G. Lukonin, Sasanidskoe serebro: sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha: khudozhestvenniia kul’tura Irana III-VIII vekov (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1987), 126.
Additional Bibliography
Voshinina, A. I. “O sviaziakh Priural’ia s Vostokom v VI-VII vv. n. e.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia XVII (1953): 184-196.
Image Credits
Featured Image
A. I. Voshinina, “O sviaziakh Priural’ia s Vostokom v VI-VII vv. n. e.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia XVII (1953): ris. 7.
Page Images
(1) A. I. Voshinina, “O sviaziakh Priural’ia s Vostokom v VI-VII vv. n. e.” Sovetskaia Arkheologiia XVII (1953): ris. 7.