Silver Dish with Fighting Scenes from the Lower Ob Region

Silver Dish with Fighting Scenes from the Lower Ob Region

N.V. Fedorova.

A medieval silver dish with hunting scenes from a hoard found on the Lower Ob is described in terms of composition, style, and the iconography of separate elements. The dish was apparently manufactured in the 12th or 13th centuries in one of the toreutic workshops in northeastern Europe, specifi cally on the Kama or in the Perm area of the Urals.

Keywords: Toreutics, pre-state formations, Western Urals, Upper Kama region, Volga Bulgaria, fi ghting scenes, Early
Bulgarian dishes, anthropomorphic images.