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KUL-OBA STUDIES PART II. THE KUL-OBA "KING"

KUL-OBA STUDIES PART II. THE KUL-OBA "KING" KUL-OBA STUDIES PART II. THE KUL-OBA “KING” N.L. GRACH One of the most unfortunate gaps in connection with our comprehensive study of the Kul-Oba burial-mound is the absence of any anthropological material. Re- grettably, both at the time, when this remarkable burial-mound was discovered, and in the decades which followed archaeologists attached virtually no impor- tance to this important source of information. Usually all that was mentioned was the sex of the deceased, sometimes his approximate age and, on extremely rare occasions, his height. Yet, if we turn to the documents and descriptions compiled by P. Dubrux, we can glean certain pieces of information of this kind. The only anthropological Ž nd which has survived to this day from the period, when the Kul-Oba tomb was Ž rst opened, is a lower jaw that belonged to the deceased ‘king.’ The fate of this Ž nd has a long history, resembling a detective drama, which can be pieced together on the basis of documentary evidence. In the Hermitage Museum the jaw was kept in the Department of the Classical World in a cardboard ‘casket’ with a silk lining specially prepared for it (Fig. 1). In 1956, when the jaw http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Brill

KUL-OBA STUDIES PART II. THE KUL-OBA "KING"

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia , Volume 7 (1-2): 19 – Jan 1, 2001

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Brill
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0929-077X
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1570-0577
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10.1163/157005701753359787
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KUL-OBA STUDIES PART II. THE KUL-OBA “KING” N.L. GRACH One of the most unfortunate gaps in connection with our comprehensive study of the Kul-Oba burial-mound is the absence of any anthropological material. Re- grettably, both at the time, when this remarkable burial-mound was discovered, and in the decades which followed archaeologists attached virtually no impor- tance to this important source of information. Usually all that was mentioned was the sex of the deceased, sometimes his approximate age and, on extremely rare occasions, his height. Yet, if we turn to the documents and descriptions compiled by P. Dubrux, we can glean certain pieces of information of this kind. The only anthropological Ž nd which has survived to this day from the period, when the Kul-Oba tomb was Ž rst opened, is a lower jaw that belonged to the deceased ‘king.’ The fate of this Ž nd has a long history, resembling a detective drama, which can be pieced together on the basis of documentary evidence. In the Hermitage Museum the jaw was kept in the Department of the Classical World in a cardboard ‘casket’ with a silk lining specially prepared for it (Fig. 1). In 1956, when the jaw

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