Introduction
In the V - VIII centuries AD, a unique artistic tradition of bronze casting, called "Ural-Siberian animal style", developed in the north of the forest-steppe zone and in the south of the taiga of the Urals and Western Siberia. The attention of researchers to the study of this phenomenon has been focused for more than 100 years. During this period, extensive material has been accumulated, stylistic features and semantics of objects made in the Ural-Siberian style have been studied in detail. Specialists who studied items of the Ural-Siberian animal style, as a rule, considered the features of manufacturing technology; a detailed technological analysis was carried out for a relatively small group of products.
Among the bronze cast products made in the Ural-Siberian animal style, hollow images of real and fantastic animals occupy a special place. Widespread over a wide territory, such objects are also found in the materials of the Verkhneobskaya culture of the Novosibirsk Ob region (Fig.
The purpose of this publication is stylistic and technological analysis of bronze objects of hollow art casting of the Verkhneobskaya culture of the Novosibirsk Ob region.
Stylistic analysis of hollow casting objects
Currently, seven bronze figures of this category are known. Stylistically, they are divided into three groups: syncretic images that are difficult to identify with any particular type of animal, figurines of real animals, and complex zoomorphic compositions. The first group includes three pendants that represent collective, syncretic images (Fig. 2, 1-3). The second group includes images of real animals: two pendants in the form of beavers and a pronizka in the form of squirrels (Figs. 2, 5-7). The third group is represented by one complex composition (Figs. 2, 4).
Syncretic images of animals. Pendant made of mounds. 21 burial grounds of Ordynskoe-1 (see Figs. 2, 1), published by [Molodin, 1992, Fig. 143; Troitskaya and Novikov, 1998, Fig. 19, 2]. The product ...
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