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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.ValeriiKolchenkoChristian Cemetery of Mongol Time at Burana Town: According to Archival Documents on Excavations in 1886http://syriaca.org/cbss/NHX4T6UEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/NHX4T6UEhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/NHX4T6UESergeiBocharovAyratSitdikovThe Genoese Gazaria and the Golden Hord2KazanStratum2019209-221In 1885, two Christian medieval cemeteries were opened in the north of present-day Kyrgyzstan, in the Chuy Valley. They were identifi ed from the fi nds of gravestones with Syrian epitaphs. Soon the epitaphs were translated and published by D. Khvolson and S. Slutsky. Archaeological excavations were carried out on the necropolis of Buranа town, in 1885-1886, but the data from these studies were not published. They are stored in the Archive of the RAS Institute of History of Material Culture, among documents of the Imperial Archaeological Committee.
Data on the excavations in late 19th century on the medieval cemetery near the settlement of Burana are cited and analyzed in this article. Most of the burials were made in pits. The second largest group is the burial in the pits with niches. All the deceased lay stretched on their backs heading west. The burials contained no grave goods, but sometimes they contain personal adornments or wearable crosses. At the end of the article, the burials from Burana Christian cemetery are compared with the burials from the necropolises of Ak-Beshim, Krasnaya Rechka and Belovodskaya fortresses, also located in the Chuy Valley. By comparing them, we come to conclusion about a break in development of Christianity in the Chuy Valley, and emergence of a new cultural tradition, associated with gravestones with epitaphs, at the beginning of 13th century.
Kolchenko, Valerii. “Christian Cemetery of Mongol Time at Burana Town: According to Archival Documents on Excavations in 1886.” In The Genoese Gazaria and the Golden Hord, edited by Sergei Bocharov and Ayrat Sitdikov, 2:209–21. Kazan: Stratum, 2019.
Valerii Kolchenko, Christian Cemetery of Mongol Time at Burana Town: According to Archival Documents on Excavations in 1886, in The Genoese Gazaria and the Golden Hord, ed. Sergei Bocharov and Ayrat Sitdikov, vol. 2 (Kazan: Stratum, 2019), 209–21.