РИТУАЛЬНЫЙ КЛАД СУНСКИХ МОНЕТ В ЯКУТИИ

• Main Author: СТЕПАНОВ А.Д.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Иркутский национальный исследовательский технический университет» 2012
• Subjects: Yakutsk; Якути*
• Online Access: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ritualnyy-klad-sunskih-monet-v-yakutii; http://cyberleninka.ru/article_covers/16976660.png

The article is about an ambiguous treasure of 147 China’s coins of X–XII centuries AC found on the valley of River Lena near to Yakutsk. Coins are addressed to 997 – 1101AC, epoch of the Dynasty Northern Sun. Author gives the complete definition of the coins based and discusses the rituality of the treasure characterized by the direction to the cardinal points, non-Yakutian numerical meanings related to China’s sacral symbolism. It also supposed the pre-Yakutian origin of the treasure.