The Sılk Road Culture And Ancıent Turkısh Wall Paınted Tomb

Yıl 2018, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1, 239 - 247, 01.01.2018

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In 2011, the research team of Mongolia and Kazakhstan has excavated a wall painted tomb at Shoroon Bumbagar, Bayannuur sum, Bulgan province, Mongolia. The tomb is approximately dated to the 7th century. The tomb structure and murals but also the burial objects from the Shoroon Bumbagar Tomb clearly exhibit the tastes of the nomadic people residing along the Silk Road and the Steppe Route. The stylistic analysis of wall paintings and burial objects from the Shoroon Bumbagar Tomb also suggests that the tomb can be dated to around 650s-670s. The funerary art tradition of East Asia as we can see in comparisons with Chinese and Koguryo mural tombs, but he certainly embodied his nomadic taste and culture into his burial, which brought the extraordinary manifestation of the broad interactions from Byzantine to China.Shoroon Bumbagar tomb is closely located to Ulaan Kherem, a Turkic earthen walled city. It was the first time to discover a wall painted tomb in Mongolia. The tomb is approximately dated to the 7th century during the Eastern Turkic period. In terms of a tomb structure, murals, and artifacts, the tomb yields interesting mixtures of the cultures of the nomads, the Byzantine, and China. With the rare examples of wall paintings and burial objects, this newly excavated mural tomb in Mongolia provide us with significant information about the cultural exchanges among the nomads including the silk road culture. It is certain that the remarkable new findings from the tomb would bring a new perspective in the study of the history of wall painted tombs from the 6th to the 8th centuries in Asia and in the study of the cultural exchanges and transmission of the funerary arts of Asia in the Silk road

Anahtar Kelimeler

Central Asia, Eastern Turkic, funerary art, cultural exchanges and transmissions

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