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Title: "Don't Forget about the Silver Covers!"
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS)
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Newly Discovered Silverwork by the ArmenianSilversmiths of Kayseri (Seventeenth–EighteenthCenturies)
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Editor-in-Chief Aram Topchyan ; Managing Editor Ani Shahnazaryan
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A seventeenth to eighteenth-century workshop of Armenian silversmiths from Kayseri, Cappadocia, is notable for having produced repoussé silver covers for religious manuscripts, liturgical objects, and luxury household articles. These objects were manufactured in silver, gold, or silvered copper, and were occasionally further embellished with colorful enamels and/or gems. Nearly seventy objects from this workshop have been identified; about a third are inscribed with the name of the silversmith and the date and place of production (Kayseri). Uninscribed objects created in this same workshop have been identified on the basis of technical and stylistic comparisons with the inscribed ones. This article will summarise the history of this workshop, discuss examples of the objects produced, and explain the iconography, which inspired the silversmiths. I will then introduce some newly identified objects from the workshop, a dish and bowl set in the collection of the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum (Southfield, Michigan). The materials, technique of manufacture, and style confirm their origin in this Armenian atelier.
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Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts
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oai:arar.sci.am:422379
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Nov 6, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS)
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), 2024, Vol 1, N 1
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), 2024, Vol 1, N 2
- Editorial board
- Contents
- The Original Text Form and Chapters Order of the Physiologus, with an Edition of the Chapter on the Lizard
- A New, Critical Edition of Armenian Deuteronomy, Forty Years after Its “Diplomatic” Predecessor
- A Note on Armenian-Caucasian Albanian Contacts
- Translation of the Genitive Absolute in the Armenian Alexander Romance
- Diplomatic Correspondence of Armenian King Levon I with Egyptian Sultan al-Malik al-Adil (1208–1209)
- La Livorno degli Armeni
- “Medieval Violence” and Legal Issues of Everyday Life in Cilician Armenia (Late Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)
- A Gusan Gestalt Shift
- Armenian Amulet Scrolls in the Collections of Paris
- "Don't Forget about the Silver Covers!"
- Azat A. Bozoyan (ed.), Պատկերապաշտության և պատկերամարտության խնդիրը Հայաստանում և Բյուզանդիայում (ազգային ինքնության պահպանման համատեքստում). հոդվածների ժողովածու ; [The Problem of Iconoclasm and Iconolatry in Armenia and Byzantium (in the Context of Identity Preservation): Collection ofArticles], Yerevan: “Gitutyun” Publishing House of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, 2024.
- A List of Armenological Publications of 2024
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Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), 2024, Vol 1, N 1
| Edition name | Date |
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| Merian, Sylvie L., "Don't Forget about the Silver Covers!" | Nov 6, 2025 |
