THE CAROLINGIAN CUP FROM THE VALE OF YORK VIKING HOARD: ORIGINS OF ITS FORM AND DECORATIVE FEATURES
Barry Ager
In 2007, near Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, a Viking-period hoard was discovered with Carolingian silver-gilt cup. This article examines this cup, highlighting Oriental, Central Asian and classical parallels both metal pottery for the cup’s form decoration. The overall significance of iconography has already been thoroughly discussed by Professor Egon Wamers, who proposed that scenes on cup are paralleled early ninth-century Stuttgart Psalter. proposes Oriental forms decorative elements metalwork were channelled to West through diplomatic contacts trade way complex routes land sea, as well possibly refugees from Islamic conquests.
The Antiquaries Journal