Stone Stele Bearing a “Sun-Headed” Deity on the Tuim River, Khakassia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6037775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y N Esin (0000-0002-4291-3313) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 85-94 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.aeae.2009.11.009 |
| OpenAlex | W2073787387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The present article gives a description of a stone stele discovered during a Finnish Antiquarian Society Expedition to the northern Minusinsk Basin in 1887–1889, and cites the research conducted previously. The article presents the author's view that the stele serves as an example of early Okunev art (late 3rd millennium BC). The article particularly focuses on the possible meaning of the representation. An interdisciplinary approach is considered most fruitful based on philological and semiotic approaches to interpreting ancient verbal ritual texts rich in epithets and metaphors. The stele is interpreted as a “visual hymn” conveying eulogy to the deity in which mytho-poetic clichés of an extinct oral tradition are reproduced graphically
Ancient history · Art · Epigraphy · Epistemology · Epitaph · Epithet · Eulogy · Literature · Meaning (existential · Philology · Poetry · Representation (politics · Sociology · Stele · Sumerian · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2015 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |