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Multi-periodSite Name: Polovetskaya Baba Alternative Name: Polovtsian Woman, Половецкая бCountry: Russia
NOTE: This site is 11.935 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Moscow
Latitude: 55.667040N Longitude: 37.668320E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Sculptured Stone in Moscow
Polovtsian (Cumanian) sculptured stone in Kolomenskoe Park in Moscow.
This mound stone stela of the 12th century was brought to and installed in Kolomenskoe in 1930s.
Reprint from the information sign:
«In fact, this statue represents a sitting man wearing a helmet, with a bowl of sacred beverage in his hands. Such sculptures were put on burial mounds by wandering tribes that used to populate the South of Russia. The sculpture represents an image of a respected ancestor: its Russian name baba (i.e. "woman") is supposed to be an erroneous interpretation of the Turkic vavá meaning "ancestor"».
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