TWO FIFTH CENTURY AD BYZANTINE SILVER BOWLS FROM ESTONIA
TWO FIFTH CENTURY AD BYZANTINE SILVER BOWLS FROM ESTONIA

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the rare silver bowls found at Kriimani and Varnja in eastern Estonia in the 19th century. The vessels are outwardly similar and have been made in the Byzantine Empire in the late 5th – early 6th century. There are four impressed control stamps of the reign of the Emperor Anastasius I (491–518 AD) on the bottom of the vessel from Varnja. In the paper an archaeological and art historical overview of silverware has been given and the questions of how and why such luxury items reached so far north are being discussed. Also S. Felten’s, a jeweller-conservator’s vision of how the Kriimani vessel had been made and how the only partly survived artefact was restored, has been added.

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