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Armoured cavalrymen attacking a fortress,
from Semireçye in Central Asia, 9th-10th century
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, S-46
The Anikovskoye Dish
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Title: Plate with Castle's Siege (Jericho)
Place of creation: Semirechye (Seven Rivers) (?)
Date: 9th-10th century
Material: silver, gold
Technique: chasing, gilding
Dimensions: D - 23,9 cm
Place of finding: found in 1909 in the village Anikovskoe of Cherdyn District of Perm Province
Inventory Number: S-46
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, S-46
Referenced as Plate 35, p31, "Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art", by Michael Gorelik, in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. Robert Elgood, London 1979
Soghdian silver plate from the eighth to ninth centuries. (State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad)
Referenced on p35, Armies of the Caliphates 862-1098 by David Nicolle
An army of heavily armoured cavalrymen, one on an armoured horse, attacking a fortress on a 9th-10th century silver plate made near the islamic frontier at Semireçye in Central Asia. (Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
Referenced as figure 447 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
447. Silver dish, 9th-10th centuries AD, Transoxanian or Khurāsānī, Hermitage, Leningrad (Gor D, Knob).
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