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V.A Shishkin - <div>Шишкин, В.А. Варахша. Москва: Издательство Академии Наук, 1963, 250с.</div><div><br></div><div>Shishkin, V.A. Varakhsha. Moscow: Izdatelystvo Akademii Nauk, 1963, 250pp.</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ABSTRACT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Varakhsha</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Варахша</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>This book is an outcome of archaeological research on the site of Varakhsha, the urban settlement in the Bukhara oasis, conducted by the expedition of the USSR State Hermitage and the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Uzbek SSR Academy of Science.</div><div><br></div><div>References to sources and scientific literature are presented on each page. The book provides illustrations, including maps and plans of both settlements and separate buildings, plans of excavations and exploratory wells, tables of findings, photos in black and white and colour of excavation sites, and samples of material and artistic culture of the settlement.</div><div><br></div><div>The work deals with the geographical characteristics and covers the history of the archaeological study of the Bukhara oasis. It depicts the history of human settlements in the oasis, its irrigation and reclamation of land.</div><div><br></div><div>The book describes the urban settlement of Bukhara and provides a brief overview of the mediaeval documentary sources about the settlement, a topography of the city and a chronology of important historical landmarks. It outlines the results of archaeological excavations of the palace of Bukhar Khudas, who were the rulers of Bukhara and presents the findings of excavations at the citadel and a detailed description of all archaeological findings. It refers also to the outcome of excavations of the residential houses in the ninth and eleventh centuries in the western part of the settlement.</div><div><br></div><div>The book describes the findings of excavations at the sites of the tower and fortifications on the north-western corner of the settlement and the city walls dating back to the sixth to eighth centuries CE.</div><div><br></div><div>The last section of the book deals with the description of mural paintings in the Red and Eastern Halls of the Palace of Bukhar Khudas. It describes separate pieces and fragments of alabaster décor of the Palace of Bukhar Khudas and aims to draw a comparative analysis between the artistic monuments of Varakhsha and those of Khwarezm, Panjiqent, Balalyktepe and southern Turkmenia.</div><div><br></div><div>Shamsiddin Kamoliddin</div><div><br></div><div>Translated by Ivan Leonidov</div>

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Шишкин, В.А. Варахша. Москва: Издательство Академии Наук, 1963, 250с.

Shishkin, V.A. Varakhsha. Moscow: Izdatelystvo Akademii Nauk, 1963, 250pp.

ABSTRACT

Varakhsha

Варахша

This book is an outcome of archaeological research on the site of Varakhsha, the urban settlement in the Bukhara oasis, conducted by the expedition of the USSR State Hermitage and the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Uzbek SSR Academy of Science.

References to sources and scientific literature are presented on each page. The book provides illustrations, including maps and plans of both settlements and separate buildings, plans of excavations and exploratory wells, tables of findings, photos in black and white and colour of excavation sites, and samples of material and artistic culture of the settlement.

The work deals with the geographical characteristics and covers the history of the archaeological study of the Bukhara oasis. It depicts the history of human settlements in the oasis, its irrigation and reclamation of land.

The book describes the urban settlement of Bukhara and provides a brief overview of the mediaeval documentary sources about the settlement, a topography of the city and a chronology of important historical landmarks. It outlines the results of archaeological excavations of the palace of Bukhar Khudas, who were the rulers of Bukhara and presents the findings of excavations at the citadel and a detailed description of all archaeological findings. It refers also to the outcome of excavations of the residential houses in the ninth and eleventh centuries in the western part of the settlement.

The book describes the findings of excavations at the sites of the tower and fortifications on the north-western corner of the settlement and the city walls dating back to the sixth to eighth centuries CE.

The last section of the book deals with the description of mural paintings in the Red and Eastern Halls of the Palace of Bukhar Khudas. It describes separate pieces and fragments of alabaster décor of the Palace of Bukhar Khudas and aims to draw a comparative analysis between the artistic monuments of Varakhsha and those of Khwarezm, Panjiqent, Balalyktepe and southern Turkmenia.

Shamsiddin Kamoliddin

Translated by Ivan Leonidov

Kamoliddin, Shamsiddin. “English abstract of 'Varakhsha'". Translated by Ivan Leonidov. In Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 to 2011, by Aptin Khanbaghi. 152. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

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