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Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan) – mosaic panels. 18th-15th C BCE

  • Nadezhda A. Dubova 2022, Gonur oasis: Discoveries of the last decades / Гонурский оазис: находки последних десятилетий. https://www.academia.edu
  • Nadezhda A. Dubova et al. 2019, Mosaics from the Bronze Age Necropolis in Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan
  • Nadezhda A. Dubova 2019, Gonur Depe – City of Kings and Gods, and the Capital of Margush Country (Modern Turkmenistan). Its discovery by Professor Victor Sarianidi and recent finds https://www.academia.edu
  • Nadezhda A. Dubova 2017, Mosaics compositions from Gonur Depe sepulchers (Turkmenistan): study of the technology/Мозаичные композиции из гробниц Гонур-депе (Туркменистан): изучение технологии создания https://www.academia.edu
  • Restoration and museumification of the mosaic panels, discovered during the excavations of the Gonur-Depe https://tdh.gov.tm/en
  • St John Simpson, Of Boxes in the Bronze Age: Exotic Imports, Skeuomorphs and Local Crafts from Central Asia to Sumer https://www.academia.edu

A box [“ostensory”], Royal necropolis, Gonur Depe, the hypogeum 3880.
Decorated with a stone mosaic with “crosses” and “hearts”

Photo source http://rnrblog.roughandreadytours.net
V. Sarianidi and M. Rzakov are cleaning the box in the expedition camp.
© Margiana archaeological expedition, after Nadezhda A. Dubova et al. 2019
Stone mosaic from Gonur Depe. After N. Dubova https://www.academia.edu

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