Objects of the Nestorian cult from Talas and Shu Valleys

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Author(s)

en Akymbek, Yeraly Sh.

en Zheleznyakov, Boris A.

Акымбек, Ералы Шардарбекулы

Железняков, Борис Анатольевич

Title

en Objects of the Nestorian cult from Talas and Shu Valleys

Publication Type

Journal Article

Language

eng

Number of Pages

16

DOI

https://doi.org/10.52967/akz2023.1.19.84.98

Location

Kazakhstan

Keywords

social practices

ich in general

rituals and beleifs

Relevance to ICH Safeguarding

identification

documentation

definition

awareness raising

ICH Genre

social practices

rituals

ICH in general

Description

This article for the first time introduces artifacts found on early medieval settlements – Taraz, Aktobe, Kysmyshy, with Christian symbols. The study of Nestorianism in the region has been going on for more than a century, in many ways, interest in the historical past of the region arose due to the massive finds of tombstones with images of crosses and Turkic-Syrian inscriptions. On the threshold of the arrival and consolidation of Islam at the turn of the 9th–10th centuries, a competitive environment of multiculturalism was created on this segment of the Great Silk Road. Christianity was just one of many world religions to which a part of the urban population related. A wave of Christian migrants arrived in the region in the 13th–14th centuries, this time from the East, and can be clearly traced by gravestones from necropolises, much fewer than the number of body crosses – pendants from burials. The topic remains extremely relevant due to a new wave of interest, new finds at the Ilibalyk settlement in the Ile Valley in recent years. While the history of the Nestorian patriarchate, metropolia and large dioceses is well known, then individual artifacts are still revealing the history of Nestorianism of the Shu-Talas interfluve fragmentally, even for the stage of the relative flourishing of Christian culture in the 8th–11th centuries. Artifacts are: ornamented parts of a glazed ceramic lamp, a cross and a relatively large cup-shaped vessel with impressions of equi-pointed crosses complement a fairly solid list of archaeological and accidental finds from the region that bore the legendary name of the country “Argu”.

Book/Journal Title

Қазақстан археологиясы(Kazakhstan Archeology)

Publisher

Margulan's Institute of Archaeology

Place of Publication

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Date of Publication

2023

Issue

1 (19)

Pages

84–98

ISSN

2789-4525 (e-ISSN)

Usage

copyright cleared

Academic Field

Ethnoarchaeology

Cultural studies

Community/Ethnic Group

Kazakhstan

Contributor

Kazakhstan National Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Active Contribution

Kazakhstan, FY 2024