Oltintepa qadimiy manzilgohi

Oltintepa – an archaeological monument, an ancient settlement located in Tashkent city, Mirzo Ulugʻbek district, Lomonosov Street. A populated place with a large fortified area. Situated on the right bank of the Chirchiq River, on the eastern edge of the city, on the right bank of the Qorasuv canal.

Description

The settlement of Oltintepa was commemorated in 1927 by Nikolay Guryevich Mallitskiy under the name “mauza”. Its dimensions, description and related dates are unknown. In 1957 the monument was examined by archaeologist Yuri Fedorovich Buryakov. The studied materials belong to the 4th–7th and 10th–14th centuries AD. No larger archaeological excavations have yet been carried out at Oltintepa. Currently the archaeological monument is a closed area.

Security

The monument is state property. It is under state protection according to the decision No. 846 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 4, 2019 “On approving the national list of objects of material cultural heritage”.

Other information

M. I. Filanovich, leading scientific employee of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, confirmed that Oltintepa is not a populated place (excavation work showed no traces of a settlement).

Key facts

Type: archaeological site
Heritage status: object of tangible cultural heritage of Uzbekistan

Facts from Wikidata.

Coordinates: 41.316873, 69.341483Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page is translated from: Oltintepa (Toshkent shahar, Mirzo Ulugʻbek tumani) (uz.wikipedia.org), as of 14 December 2024

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