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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
The silver dish reproduced on Plate XLVIII. is a small but remarkably perfect representative of its class, and was acquired by the British Museum in the course of last year. The subject is a hunting scene, introducing the Sassanian monarch Sapor II. (c. A.D. 310 to A.D. 380), the conqueror of the Emperor Julian. The king, who is recognized by the form of his headdress, is seen giving the coup de grâce to a stag, while a second stag is already laid low in the foreground. The design is parcel-gilt, and the figures are partly in relief, partly outlined upon the ground of the bowl, the details being rendered by engraving.
page 381 note a The headdresses are determined by those of the Sassanian coinage. By this means the king hunting lions upon another dish in the British Museum is identified as Bahram Gur, the “Bahram the great hunter,” of Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam.
page 381 note b Reproduced in The Treasure of the Oxus and other Objects from Ancient Persia and India, pl. xxv. (British Museum, 1905)Google Scholar.
page 382 note a Hodgkin, , Italy and her Invaders, ii. 66Google Scholar.
page 382 note b Hodgkin, , Italy and her Invaders, ii. 54Google Scholar.
page 382 note c Published by the Imperial Russian Archæological Commission. The text is in Russian.