Collection of Bronze Items from the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography (FEFU Education and Research Museum, Vladivostok)
The article deals with description of the bronze items collection received in 2011 by the FEFU Education and Research Museum (Vladivostok). The collection consists of 17 bronze objects including 13 mirrors, 3 coin-shaped amulets and 1 seal. There is no information about the place and circumstances of the finding of these artifacts. However, analysis of decor, style and iconography of these items, and also cast and engraved inscriptions on some mirrors and at the seal, indicate that they belong to different chronological periods. Most of bronze mirrors date from the XII-XIII centuries. One mirror has a typical Liao epoch (907-1125) ornament. Another one previously attributed by the authors to the XVI-XIX centuries. Two coin-shaped amulets were cast, most likely in the Jurchen time. Amulets with through decor were common in the Far East region in the XIII-XVII centuries. The seal is an unique artifact of the East Xia period (XIII century).