Babish-mola — the Capital City of Antiquity in the Lower Reaches of the Syr Darya: Stratigraphy, Periodization, Chronology
Babish-mola — oraș de capitală al epocii antice pe cursul de jos al Sîrdariei: stratigrafie, periodizare, cronologie
Бабиш-мола — столичный город эпохи античности в низовьях Сырдарьи: стратиграфия, периодизация, хронология
Utubayev Zh.R. Bolelov S.B. Kasenova A.D.
2023High Anthropological School University
Stratum Plus
2023Issue 3179 - 199 pp.
The article publishes the results of several years of excavations at the Babish-Mola settlement, on the territory of the ancient delta of the Syr Darya, where the agricultural Chirikrabat archaeological culture was widespread in the second half of the I millennium BC. During the three seasons of field research, the premises and a section of the bypass corridor in the north-western part of the building of the palace and temple complex — the “Big House” on the citadel of the settlement were partially opened. As a result of the work carried out on stratigraphic data, it was possible to identify three relatively different periods in the life of this site: the early one — the construction and short-term functioning of the building as a palace and two periods of habitation when the site was abandoned by the first inhabitants and fallen into disrepair. In the course of the research, a few, but quite expressive archaeological complexes were discovered, mainly fragments of ceramics, on the basis of which the lifetime of the site can be tentatively dated within the 4th—2nd centuries BC.
ceramic complex , Chirikrabat archaeological culture , citadel , construction period , fort , palace complex , settlements , stratigraphy , Syr Darya
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Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Dostyk Ave., 44, Almaty, 050100, Kazakhstan
Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Ave., 71, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
State Museum of Oriental Art, Nikitsky Bd., 12a, Moscow, 119019, Russian Federation
Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Farabi Kazakh National University
State Museum of Oriental Art
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