Bronze “Face” Lamp from the Gnezdovo Archaeological Complex: Toward Attribution and Date
Journal: GRAPHOSPHAERA Writing and Written Practices
Year: 2025

This paper concerns a unique imported item found in one of the burial mounds of the Gnezdovo archaeological complex – a bronze lamp depicting a female head. This find has been known since 1874. The last reasoned attribution of the lamp as an Iranian lamp of the 9th–10th centuries was made in 1902 by V. I. Sizov and has remained unquestioned to date. However, neither in Iran nor in the territory of the Arab Caliphate as a whole have any finds of bronze lamps from the early Middle Ages (9th–10th c