Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
Archaeological collections of the early Middle Ages and the Middle Ages (5th – 16th centuries) are no less rich.
Among them are magnificent examples of monumental painting and ganch carving from the Varakhsha site in the Bukhara region. The remained samples of woodcarving from the Jumalaktepa castle are evidence of the high level of craftsmen – woodcarvers. In the 9th – 16th centuries, this kind of craft manifested in magnificent examples of carved columns from Khiva, which once decorated the ayvans of residential buildings.
Among the samples of ceramic, copper-chased production, glass-making items of the 9th – 15th centuries, glazed ceramic dishes from Tashkent and Samarkand stand out, as well as copper dishes with engraved and embossed ornamentation and glass vessels from Tashkent. The largest collection of ossuaries of the Zoroastrian burial rite kept in the collection is unique. In addition, the collection keeps artifacts of material culture with samples of written language dated to the 1st – 16th centuries such as Aramaic, Khorezmian, Sogdian, Kharosthi, Brahmi, Greek, Bactrian, Turkic, and Arabic.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album “The Collection of the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan” (part one) (Volume XXVI) from the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
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