Some of the details on the best-preserved plaque have melted, but it shows a Göktürk khagan seated on a throne that represents two horses, flanked by kneeling servants.Image credit: Z. Samashev
Posted on 01/07/2024 4:57:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The ornaments contain the earliest known depiction of a Göktürk "khagan," who probably lived in the sixth century.
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered two gold ornaments in a 1,500-year-old tomb that feature the earliest known depictions of the great khan, or "khagan," of the Göktürks — a nomadic confederation of Turkic-speaking peoples who occupied the region for around three centuries, according to an archaeologist who excavated the site...
The finds are from the Eleke Sazy site near Kazakhstan's remote eastern borders with China, Mongolia and Russian Siberia, where Samashev and his colleagues have worked since 2016.
The sixth-century Göktürk tomb holds the remains of a nobleman, probably a "tegin" — or "prince" in the Old Turkic language — whose burial site had developed by the seventh century into a "cultic memorial complex" that deified the deceased man, Samashev said.
Samashev thinks the prince may have belonged to the royal Ashina clan of khagans — meaning "sovereign" in Old Turkic, and the origin of the word "khan." The Ashina clan founded two Turkic states in the central Eurasian Steppes between the fifth and eighth centuries and ruled until they were conquered by another Turkic group who became the Uyghurs.
The two gold plaques were found in the central chamber of the tomb where the prince was cremated; one was badly damaged by the fire of the cremation.
Many modern Turks are descendants of people who were part of the Western Turkic Khaganate, which formed after civil wars among the Göktürks in the late sixth century; and the Khazar Khaganate — the successor of the Western Turk Khaganate — which survived until the 10th century as an ally of the Byzantine Empire.
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Some of the details on the best-preserved plaque have melted, but it shows a Göktürk khagan seated on a throne that represents two horses, flanked by kneeling servants.Image credit: Z. Samashev
I have a Washington Redskins buckle that is sure to be valuable as a racist, native American phobic piece one day!
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha sort:
One more example of you rise to a height and then your short life is over and you are gone forever.
Money and power while here stepping on everyone and thinking you are ‘it’ but now you are gone.
What is it all about?
YOLO.
“She sits (man-speaded) on A Throne of Lies!!”
The buckle is a lost wax casting revealing high order metal casting technology
That is some fantastic craftsmanship. Even w/out my glasses on I can make it out.
Pretty nice find though.
Go Turks!
Oh that’s perfect.
Biden has a gold buckles depicting him sitting on a throne but not the same kind of throne.
It depicts the ruler how he shits on everything.
It reminds me of Med basin ancient gorgon coin designs, but instead may have been influenced by other Asian cultures’ dragon faces.
And probably they were takin’ payoffs from the Chinese too.
Yup, and it could easily be that these were made specifically for their rites of burial.
Agree they own him 100%.
Pre-Islamic. Important to note.
It does have a look like that but I can’t figure out how the buckle went in and out of that hole.
Which btw the shape of that hole reminds me of those hellmouths they made in that same period of time. Kind of a pussycat mouth shape. I wonder if there was an influence there?
THANX
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