Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History

The Scene of Bear Hunt on the Sasanian Silver Plate from the Wyvern Collection. On Segmented Image-Building in Sasanian Art

Document Type : Original Research

Author

Patryk Skupniewicz

University of Siedlce, Poland; Wyvern Research Institute, UK

https://doi.org/10.22034/hunara.2024.200527
Abstract
The silver plate in the Wyvern Collection, London, depicts a scene of the mounted bear hunt. The article examines the scene from an iconographic perspective, researching the composition, the traditions of similar themes in Sasanian and related arts, as well as the details of depicted elements of material culture. The research confirms the origin of the plate from the territory of modern Afghanistan and associates the scene with the model represented in art of the Kushan Empire on which Sasanian elements were placed. The iconographic details can allow dating of the plate to the fifth/sixth centuries AD.

Keywords

Sasanian Iconography
Sasanian Art
Sasanian Silver
Hephtalite-Sasanian Art
Sasanian Heroic Encounters
Sasanian Compositional Conventions
Kushanshahr
Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History
Volume 3, No. 1
July 2025
Pages 1-42

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