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The Tcherdyne Dish, 5th or 6th-7th centuries AD
Title: Dish with the Depiction of a King Hunting Argalis
Place of creation: Iran
Date: 6th century
Material: silver
Technique: chased and gilded
Dimensions: diameter. 24.6 cm
Acquisition date: Entered the Hermitage in 1936; handed over from the Local History Museum in Cherdyn
Inventory Number: S-216
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. S-216.
Dish with King of Kings Peroz (457-483) hunting.
Silver. Dia. 24.6 cm.
Found 1936 vill. Anikovskaia, Perm provence with T & L no. 22. Inv. no. S-216.
Pub.: Trever and Lukonin no. 8; Scythian 1969, no. 84.
Source: washington.edu
Maurice Dimand, "A review of Sasanian and Islamic Metalwork, in 'A Survey of Persian Art'", Ars Islamica, vol. VIII, 1941, Fig. 2, p. 195, The Tcherdyne Dish, VI-VII centuries A.D., Hermitage Museum.
Elsie Holmes Peck, The Representation of Costumes in the Reliefs of Taq-i-Bustan. Artibus Asiae, Vol. 31, No. 2/3, 1969, Fig. 10. [With '6th-7th Centuries' caption].
