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Gerasimov Mikhail. Woman from Ustrushana (the Shirin-Say cemetery, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan). 1945, 1947 (casting)
Gerasimov Mikhail. Woman from Ustrushana (the Shirin-Say cemetery, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan). 1945, 1947 (casting)
Number
МАЭ № 6080-21
Title
Woman from Ustrushana (the Shirin-Say cemetery, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan).
Date
1945, 1947 (casting)
Collectors-person
Material
plaster
Annotation
Ustrushana was an ancient country in southwestern Central Asia. It encompassed part of the Syr Darya valley, where this 2nd–4th century AD cemetery is located. This was a crossroads of caravan routes within the Great Silk Road. The cemetery was excavated by V.F. Gaydukevich, M.Z. Panichkina, and M.M. Gerasimov in 1943. The cranium from burial 1, that of a woman aged 25-27, used for facial reconstruction by Gerasimov, reveals a sharply profiled face and protruding nose – a combination indicative of the Mediterranean type. It is very ancient in southwestern Central Asia.
Corpus
Anthropological plastic reconstructions, lifetime masks. 19th - 20th centuries
Gerasimov Mikhail. Woman from early medieval Sogdia. 1945, 1947 (casting)
Gerasimov Mikhail. Woman from Ustrushana (the Shirin-Say cemetery, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan). 1945, 1947 (casting)