AN UNUSUAL SUBJECT IN THE ROCK ART IMAGERY OF THE OLD-TURKIC PERIOD FROM THE ALTAI

2019

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DOI 10.25681/iaras.2019.978-5-202-01433-8.361-366
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Abstract

В 2001 г. в долине р. Чаган на Алтае найдена и опубликована Д.В.Черемисиным удивительная миниатюра, гравированная на скале в древнетюркское время. В центре изображен породистый конь с тамгой на крупе, с двух сторон удерживаемый на веревках воинами третий воин готовится выстрелить в животное из лука. Первоначально воспринятая как сцена укрощения или жертвоприношения коня, эта картина теперь рассматривается авторами как необычный для традиционного наскального искусства и для эпоса кочевников Центральной Азии сюжет, повествующий о намеренном убийстве коня, отмеченного тамгой его владельца. Точный возраст миниатюры пока не установлен. Своеобразная форма тамги имеет сходство с тамгами басмылов, представленными на памятниках Монголии, но более напоминает тамгу тюргешей, известную по нумизматическим материалам и петроглифам Семиречья. In 2001 an amazing miniature engraved during the Old-Turkic period on a rock in the Chagan Valley in the Altai, was found and published by D.V. Cheremisin. In the center of the composition a thoroughbred horse with a tamga on its croup is engraved, it is held with ropes by two warriors the third warrior is preparing to shoot the animal with a bow. Originally perceived as a scene of taming or sacrificing a horse, this depiction is now considered by the authors as a subject, unusual for the traditional rock art and for the epic of Central Asian nomads: the purposive killing of a horse marked by its owners tamga. The exact dating of the engravings has not yet been established. The peculiar form of the tamga resembles the Basmyls tamga represented in rock art and at the memorial stele from Bombogor (Mongolia), but is more reminiscent of the tamga of the Turgeshes, known from early medieval coins and petroglyphs of the Semirechye in Kazakhstan.