Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Bloodthirsty dragons settled in the museum

The unique collection of the ancient mosaic panels, discovered with the excavations of famous monument To gonur-depe in Mary velayate of Turkmenia, is transmitted to the museum of the depictive skills of the country. It was found Shityu the margianskeye expedition, which carried out excavations To gonur-depe.

According to its leader, Victor sarianidi, priceless findings relate toward the end III v. to n. 3. Mosaics decorated interior with one of the tsarist tombs; however, were badly damaged in extreme antiquity with the robbery nekropolya To gonur-depe. Colleagues for the national administration of Turkmenistan for protection, study and restoration of the monuments of history and culture thoroughly of otrestavrirovali unique findings, after restoring them in a maximally integral form. Work was complex, since the mosaics consist of thousands of fine gypsum details with the relief thread and the painting with black and red color on the contour of the lines, which border the depicted figures. Basic theme of these compositions - dragons -ajdarxa, that swallow artiodactyl animals. So in the allegorical form ancient margushtsy illustrated the idea of the fight of good and evil, which was the basis of their philosophical- ethical system.

Of sarianidi he emphasized that the discovered in Margiane unusually realistic topical mosaics, so uncommon in theme and technology of performance, such complex according to figure, are earliest in the world. Until now the mosaics of that old time, created in Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Egypt, were known to science, but they were ornamental, with the geometric patterns.

Here already 30 years in Turkmenia are achieved study of the ancient country Of margush under the management by Victor sarianidi. They obtained wide reputation because of the unique findings of the works of the skill of the distant ancestors of the Turkmen people

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