IDNO

LS.137623.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Hungary 187 Hu.11-14
Nagy Szent Miklos IX c. Gold treasure (cont.)
11. 'Sauce boat' from behind & beaker
12. Nautilus-shaped vessel
13. Handled saucer & ladle.
14. Bowl."

Place

W Europe; Austria; Hungary; Vienna; Kunsthistorisches Museum [Sânnicolau Mare; Nagyszentmiklós; Groß-Sankt-Niklaus]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Minns, Ellis (Sir)

Date

post 1945

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Context: The Treasure of Sânnicolau Mare or Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós is an important hoard of 23 early medieval gold vessels, in total weighing 9.945 kg (about 22 lbs), found in 1799 near the town of Sânnicolau Mare (Nagyszentmiklós in Hungarian,[1] Groß-Sankt-Niklaus in German, all meaning "Great St Nicholas")[2] in northern Banat (then part of the Torontál County of the Kingdom of Hungary within the Habsburg Empire, today in Timiş County in western Romania).[3] After the excavation, the treasure was transferred to Vienna, the capital of the empire. Ever since, it has been in the possession of the Kunsthistorisches Museum there, where it is on permanent display. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_of_Nagyszentmiklós, JD 11/3/2017]

Biographical Information: Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (16 July 1874 – 13 June 1953) was a British academic and archaeologist whose studies focused on Eastern Europe.
Educated at Charterhouse, he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge studying the Classical tripos including Slavonic and Russian. He lived briefly in Paris before moving to St Petersburg in 1898 to work in the library of the Imperial Archaeological Commission. Returning to Cambridge in 1901 he began lecturing in Classics.
In 1927, he was appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology, a post he held until 1938. He wrote widely with books including Scythians and Greeks (1913) and The Art of the Northern Nomads (1944). He was an authority on Slavonic icons and in 1943 cleared the Russian translation engraved on the ceremonial "Sword of Stalingrad" presented by the British people in homage to the defenders of the Russian city.
In the 1945 New Year Honours, Minns was appointed a Knight Bachelor, and thereby granted the title sir." [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Minns, JD 11/3/2017]