East syriac christianity In the ‘land of seven rivers’: aspects of material culture and artistic tradition

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This article examines the history, material culture, and art of East Syriac Christianity in Semirechye (8th-14th centuries CE) from a Scottish private collection. Within the topic’s framework, attention is focused on issues surrounding the current state of research on East Syriac Christianity in Central Asia and the primary paleographic and archaeological sources for studying its material culture and art. The essential issues of this study include the dating of the Christian cultural ecumene in Semirechye, the identification of the central location of the Metropolitan of Kashgar and Navaket, and the cultural and aesthetic influences of both Western and East Asia on the culture of Christians in medieval Semirechye are all considered. Based on the items of the East Syriac Christian circle from a Scottish private collection and other institutional and private collections,specific issues of East Syriac Christian culture in Semirechye have been analysed, including the local and extraterritorial artistic influences; stylistic and iconographic features; the development of East Syriac Christian figurative art in the context of the Islamic iconoclasm. This research article reviews selected objects of Christian material culture in medieval Semirechye, of various media and techniques, and pays particular attention to the compositional, stylistic, and iconographic aspects. The article includes a catalogue of artefacts from the Scottish private collection.

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