WITHOUT A FACE: A SILVER PLAQUE FROM THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE URALS
This article provides a description and preliminary interpretation of a unique discovery from a previously unknown burial ground in the Konda River basin (Sovetsky Region of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District–Yugra); the discovery represents a silver plaque from the 9th–10th century. The plaque ha...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Russian |
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IAET SB RAS
2016
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| Online Access: | https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/57 |
| Summary: | This article provides a description and preliminary interpretation of a unique discovery from a previously unknown burial ground in the Konda River basin (Sovetsky Region of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District–Yugra); the discovery represents a silver plaque from the 9th–10th century. The plaque has a fragment missing that bears the representation of the head (and presumably the face) of a male figure. This suggests that the missing fragments’ exclusion from burial was intentional and that the missing fragment was subsequently used to produce a figure of the deceased as a receptacle for his soul. An appendix to this article contains the results of traceological analysis for the plaque’s fragmentation during burial ritual. Статья посвящена уникальной находке, происходящей из неизвестного могильника в бассейне р. Конды (Советский р-н ХМАО-Югры), – серебряной бляхе IX–X вв. Даны ее описание и первичная атрибуция. Отсутствие в погребении фрагмента бляхи с изображением головы (лица) мужчины позволяет предполагать его преднамеренное исключение из погребального инвентаря и последующее использование для изготовления фигуры умершего – вместилища его души. В приложении к статье дается трасологический анализ фрагментации бляхи во время погребального обряда. |
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