TY - JOUR

T1 - БРОНЗОВЫЕ КОЛЕСА СО СПИЦАМИ ИЗ САНЬСИНДУЯ И ДРЕВНЕИНДИЙСКИЕ МИФЫ О ГАРУДЕ

T2 - BRONZE SPOKED WHEELS FROM SANXINGDUI AND ANCIENT INDIAN MYTHS ABOUT GARUDA

AU - Varenov, Andrey V.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - The article presents a review and analysis of bronze wheels with five spokes each and anthropomorphic statue of the Bronze Age Sanxingdui culture spread in the Sichuan province of the PRC. The author calls “statues” life-size human figures with a height of at least 50 cm (but not their parts, such as heads), assembled from pre-cast parts. He suggests calling the smaller sculptures, cast at one time, “statuettes”. The design features of bronze anthropomorphic statues of Sanxingdui allow us to synchronize the time of their creation with the existence of bronze masks of types A and C, as well as bronze “spirit trees” No. 2 and No. 1, since the same technological methods were used in their production. Bronze wheels could be related to the skirt-wearing human figure with talons holding in them two snake-like creatures with bird’s heads. Both those wheels and the statue could be interpreted with the help of ancient Indian myths about Garuda. Recent finds in JK8 sacrificial pit from Sanxingdui were also taken into account in the article.

AB - The article presents a review and analysis of bronze wheels with five spokes each and anthropomorphic statue of the Bronze Age Sanxingdui culture spread in the Sichuan province of the PRC. The author calls “statues” life-size human figures with a height of at least 50 cm (but not their parts, such as heads), assembled from pre-cast parts. He suggests calling the smaller sculptures, cast at one time, “statuettes”. The design features of bronze anthropomorphic statues of Sanxingdui allow us to synchronize the time of their creation with the existence of bronze masks of types A and C, as well as bronze “spirit trees” No. 2 and No. 1, since the same technological methods were used in their production. Bronze wheels could be related to the skirt-wearing human figure with talons holding in them two snake-like creatures with bird’s heads. Both those wheels and the statue could be interpreted with the help of ancient Indian myths about Garuda. Recent finds in JK8 sacrificial pit from Sanxingdui were also taken into account in the article.

KW - Bronze Age

KW - China

KW - Hindu mythology

KW - Sanxingdui

KW - Sichuan province

KW - anthropomorphic statues

KW - bronze casting

KW - interpretation

KW - sacrificial pits

KW - аrchaeology

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U2 - 10.24852/pa2024.4.50.43.55

DO - 10.24852/pa2024.4.50.43.55

M3 - статья

VL - 4

SP - 43

EP - 55

JO - Поволжская археология

JF - Поволжская археология

SN - 2306-4099

IS - 50

ER -