Idol of Sbrutsch
The idol of Sbrutsch (Polish. Światowid ze Zbrucza, ukr. Збручанський ідол) is a four-sided column made of limestone . It is the representation of a Slavic deity and originated in the 9th or 10th century. The column was found in 1848 in the river Sbruch near the village Lychkivtsi (ukr. Личківці) in what was then Eastern Galicia, now Ukraine, and is located in the Archaeological Museum in Krakow . Faithful replicas can be found in Moscow , Kiev , Hrodna , Warsaw , Vilnius , Odessa and Ternopil .
The column is 2.57 m high, 29-30 cm wide and weighs about 500 kg. It contains relief depictions of people and animals on all four sides. There were traces of red paint on the column. In Poland, the column is considered to be a representation of Svantevid because of the four faces in the upper, final part.
In the 1980s, the archaeologists IP Russanowa and BO Timoschtschuk found out that the column had originally been in a cult site on Mount Bohod (Bogit). There they discovered a circle of stones with eight hearths and traces of a square column.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leńczyk G., Światowid zbruczański w: Materiały archeologiczne 1964 (r. 5), pp. 5–61. (Discovery)
- ↑ Kozłowski R., Badania TECHNOLOGICZNE posągu Światowida z Muzeum Archeologicznego w Krakowie w: Materiały Archeologiczne 1964 t. V, pp. 61–67 (technological analyzes)
