Ak-Besim
Ak-Beshim (also Ak-Beshim , the old Sujab , Chinese 碎 葉城 , Pinyin Suìyè Chéng ) is a village in northern Kyrgyzstan , near Tokmok , with extensive ruins of a city from the 6th to 8th centuries AD.
The city complex consists of two adjacent, rectangular, perhaps once walled structures. During Soviet excavations from 1953, two Buddhist temples, a Christian church with a cemetery and a castle were discovered.
The Buddhist temples are best preserved. One, measuring 76 × 22 meters, consisted of a group of rooms at the entrance area, a large, elongated courtyard, a columned hall and a shrine behind it. This once stood a large statue of Buddha made of bronze , were found by the only remnants. The temple was richly painted and its architecture had some similarities with the temple in Surkh Kotal, Afghanistan . The second, square temple had no inner courtyard.
From 620, Sujab was temporarily the capital of the western part of the First Turk Kaganat .
Research by the Chinese historian Guo Moruo has shown that today's Ak-Beschim under its Chinese name "Suiye" was the birthplace of the most important Chinese poet of the Tang period , Li Bai (701–762).
Sujab has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled Silk Roads: the road network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor since 2014 .
literature
- MBPiotrovskiĭ, GVVilinbakhov: Suiab Ak-Beshim , Saint-Petersburg 2002
- Boris J. Stawiskij: The peoples of Central Asia in the light of their art monuments , Bonn 1982, pp. 193–97, ISBN 3921591236
Individual evidence
- ^ Grégoire Frumkin: Archeology in Soviet Central Asia. ( Handbook of Oriental Studies, 7th section: Art and Archeology, 3rd volume: Innerasien, 1st section) EJ Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1970, p. 37
- ^ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 7, 2019 .
Coordinates: 42 ° 48 ' N , 75 ° 12' E