Title:

Posąg ze Zbrucza i jego otoczenie. Lata badań, lata wątpliwości

Subtitle:

Das Standbild aus dem Zbrucz und ihre Umgebung. Jahre der Untersuchungen, Jahre der Zweifel ; Statue from Zbruch and its surroundings. Years of research, years of doubt ; Przegląd Archeologiczny T. 44 (1996)

Creator:

Szymański, Wojciech

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Date issued/created:

1996

Description:

ill. ; 29 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Slavs ; early Middle Ages ; columns of the pagan deities ; cult places

Abstract:

In 1998 passed 150 years of finding in the river Zbruch (Ukraina) four-headed, stone statue called sometimes „Światowid". There are many studies about this monument, but up to now we do not have modern monograph based on comprehensive researches. This statue is an unique Slav monument dated from IX/X century AD, which can be probably assumed as anmaterialization of the idea of cosmical column. The upper part of the column covers representation of universal, hermaphroditic deity, middle part - demoniac creatures which live on the earth, lower part - deity of the underground world. Equipment of the deity with realisticly depicted sabre of specific type can be recognized as an evidence of Hungarian influence on Slav culture in the Dniester river region - Croats or Lenzanenes (?). Up to now from the Dniester river region we know several stone statues which are partly similar to the Zbruch monument and wrongly attributed to the Cherniakhovsk culture from III-IV centuryAD. Excavations which took place a few years ago in the discovery area of the Zbruch column, mainly on hill-forts from the Bohut and Zvenigorod mountains (LP. Rusanova, B.A. Timoshchuk) provided many valuable results, only partly connected with the pagan period. In spite of the statements of these authors there are not any evidences of „Swiatowiďs" sanctuary in this area and abundant materials (especially from Zvenigorod) let to attribute the finds to the later periods and Christian culture of the Kiev Rus

Relation:

Przegląd Archeologiczny

Volume:

44

Start page:

75

End page:

116

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0079-7138

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P III 149 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 272 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P III 353 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

ger

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Activities popularizing science (DUN)

Access:

Open