Harper Prudence O., Pieter Meyers. Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period. Volume 1, Royal Imagery

NY: The Metropolitan museum of art, 1981. — 273 p.Philippe de Montebello.Color Plates.Part One.Catalogue and Interpretation.
Prudence O. Harper.Historical Outline.Medallion Bowls with Human Busts.
Catalogue.Vessels with Hunting Scenes.
The Numismatic Evidence.
Catalogue.
Elements Having a Chronological Significance.
Definition of the Different Stylistic Groups.
Relationship of the Plates in Group I to those in the Overall Parallel-Line and the Paired-Line Drapery Styles.
Sources of the Overall Parallel-Line and the Paired-Line Drapery Styles.V. Thrones and Enthronement Scenes.Interpretation and Conclusions.
The Initial Stages.
The Central Sasanian Group.
The British Museum Shapur Plate and Provincial Silver Plates.Part Two.Technical Study.
Pieter Meyers.I. Technical Study.Metal Production.
Methods of Manufacture.
Elemental Composition.
Technical Description of Objects Bearing Royal Images.
Table I. Elemental Composition.
Technical Description of Individual Objects.Appendices for Part One.List of Abbreviations in Appendices, Arranged by Plate Number.Appendix I. Tabulation of iconographic details according to style; data on inscriptions and provenance.
Table I. Characteristics of the hunting plates on which the folds of the drapery are rendered as overall parallel lines.
Table II. Characteristics of the hunting plates on which the folds of the drapery are rendered as paired lines.
Table III. Characteristics of early non-royal hunting plates.
Table IV. Inscriptions and provenance.Touroucheva plate with Shapur II hunting lions.
Hunting plate in the Guennol collection.Chronology of kings.
Plates.