NEW DATA ON A SPECIFIC KIND OF SAKA PERIOD STATUES

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета

Zh. K. Kurmankulov¹  A. D. Kasenova²  L. N. Ermolenko² 

[1] A. H. Margulan Institute of Archaeology;Kemerovo State University;

关键词: anthropomorphic stone statues, hemispheric “clour” on the top of statue’s head, incase for the lock, barrows with “moustaches” or two embowed stone strips, early iron age, saka period, saryarka, central kazakhstan;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper introduces into scientific use 5 Early Iron Age statues with the only feature: hemispheric prominence (“clour”) on the top of the statues’ head. There are 8 statues of this kind, including the 5 being published, out of almost two dozens of Saka Period statues. Analytical comparison with the other Early Iron Age statues of Saryarka enabled us to determine both similarities of a few morphological and stylistic features and peculiarities of the statues of this kind: all of them depict human head crowned with a clour. The authors assume the function of the clour feature to be an incase for the lock on the top (aydar), the hairstyle represented in a number of Saka Period statues. By analogy with the earlier published statues, the ones with the clour feature being introduced here were dated by the 7th – 5th centuries BC. In this connection the authors suppose that such statues being located in proximity with barrows with “moustaches” may be an evidence of their synchronicity.

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