Provenance
In 1901, a farmer, T. A. Isaev, found two silver vessels– a bowl decorated with a lion and this plate decorated with a horse (?)– and four grivnas under the stump of an old birch tree (Talitskaia 1952, 181). Isaev lived near the village of Kudeseva (Кудесева) on the Kama River in the Cherdynskii County (Чердынский Уезд) of the Perm Governorate (Пермская Губерния) of the Russian Empire. Both vessels arrived at the Imperial Hermitage Museum sometime before 1909, and remain in the collection of the renamed State Hermitage Museum today.
Kudeseva was located on an early rail line running along the Kama. In the mid-twentieth century, Kudeseva was abandoned but a landmark called ‘Rodin Mys’ remains. Kudeseva neighbored the village of Ankudinovo, which is still inhabited today. Between Kudeseva and Ankudinovo, another village, Isaevo, developed in the mid-twentieth century. The nearest inhabited village to the find location of the hoard is Isaevo (Исаево), which is in the present-day Gainskii District (Гайнский Район), Perm Province/Krai (Пермский Край), Russian Federation.
Technical Notes
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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. 55,6]
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. CXVI № 294]
Additional Bibliography
Otchet Imperatorskoi Arkheologicheskoi Komissii za 1902. Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia glavnogo upravleniia udelov, 1904.
Talitskaia, I. A. Materialy k arkheologicheskoi karte basseina r. Kamy. Moscow: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the SSSR, 1952.
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), № 294.
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), № 294.