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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Stone Babas on Dvortsova StreetCountry: Ukraine
NOTE: This site is 48.199 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Kirovohrad
Latitude: 48.509905N Longitude: 32.266668E
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
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This unique display on Dvortsova Street, in Kirovohrad attracts the passerby by the statues’ exotic appearance. In a park by the roadside is a collection of six statues, one Neolithic anthropomorphic stele, one medieval Polovtsian “baba", the rest Scythian, one of the largest collections in Ukraine, left by the local authorities to the mercy of the elements, and now potentially far worse of course.
Three of them were inherited from the city’s first local history museum under the able guidance of Vladimir Yastrebov (1855-98), local historian, archeologist and ethnographer. He was the one who discovered the anthropomorphic stone statues in the steppe part of Ukraine bordering on the Dnipro River, currently known as Prydniprovia.
In Scythian times, such statues were commonly used as grave markers, connected with cults of the dead among nomadic people. Those erected in Ukraine were left by Scythian and Sarmatian tribes of the 7th to the 4th century BC, and by Turkic peoples of the 6th to 13th century, particularly by the Cumans. In steppe Ukraine, most of these statues were apparently female – hence the name, “baba” that literally means “granny” or “old woman.” Most such figures are in standing or sitting positions.
Read More at: https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/travel/scythian-baba (Article from 2014 - Archive link)
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