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Round Plate

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Description

The plate is massive and round with a silver forged loop on the back. The front side of the plate is decorated with an ornament of concentric circles. In the center there is a decorative bezel setting with a stone insert. The insert is possibly made out of mountain limestone. The rim of bezel, like the other two circles, is made of a gold ribbon rolled into a ring and decorated with chopped notches on top. Around the stonesetting there are four oval embossed bulges, forming a second figure in the form of a rhombus. The composition is completed by a rim made of two circles, between which an ornament of 23 lamellar rings is laid out.

Material/Technique

Gold, silver, semiprecious stones / forging, rolling, stamping, cutting, soldering, polishing, insert fixing, carving, grinding

Measurements

d 36 mm

Literature

  • Бидзиля В., Яковенко Э. (1974): Киммерийские погребения Высокой Могилы. СА. - - № 1. - С. 150
  • Колектив авторів (1987): L’oro di Kiev. Toreutica e oreficeria dal Museo storico dei Preziosi dell’Ucraina (Opere dall’VIII secolo a.C. al XIII secolo d.C.). Firenze
  • Колектив авторів (1991): Золото степу. Археологія України. Шлезвіг
  • Колектив авторів (1992): Scythian gold. Museum of Historic Treasures of Ukraine.-. Tokyo
  • Колектив авторів (1993): Gold aus Kiew. 170 meisterwerke aus der Schatzkammer der Ukraine. Wien
  • Колектив авторів (1995): Tesori delle Steppe. Milano
  • Колектив авторів (1997): Oro. Barbaarien kulta–aarre. Barbarernas guld. Helsinki
  • Колектив авторів (1999): Scythian gold. Treasures from ancient Ukraine. New York
  • Колектив авторів (1999): Золота скарбниця України. Київ
  • Тереножкин А.И. (1976): Киммерийцы. Київ
Map
Created Created
-800
Північне Причорномор'я
Found Found
1971
Бідзіля, Василь Іванович
село Балки
Buried Buried
-800
Курган №1 (Висока Могила), поховання №2 поблизу села Балки Василівського району Запорізької області
[Relation to time] [Relation to time]
-1000
-1001 1973
National Museum of the History of Ukraine

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