Production time 5-7 working days.
Estimated shipping time
North America: 1-3 weeks
South America: 3-5 weeks
Europe: 1-2 weeks
Australia, New Zealand and Oceania: 3-5 weeks
Asia Pacific: 3-5 weeks
We decided to recreate one of the world-famous Polovtsian stone idols from Ukraine, making a miniature bronze statuette.
This sculpture is based on well-known Cumans (Polovtsi) idols that date from the 11th and 13th centuries AD - "babas" (Ukrainian language "баби"). These statues symbolized their ancestors and were placed in specially constructed sanctuaries for them. They were usually built on the tops of high burial mounds or hills. These were ordinary square or rectangular fences made of stone. The size of the sanctuaries depends, apparently, on the number of ancestors revered in it. More than the other, two statues were set by the faces facing the east, male and female: tribal elders. Occasionally came the sanctuary with a cluster of statues - in each not less than 12-15. At the foot of the statues found bones of rams.
The Cumans (Polovtsi) were a Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kypchak confederation. They inhabited a shifting area north of the Black Sea and along the Volga River known as Cumania, where the Cuman–Kypchaks meddled in the politics of the Caucasus and the Khwarezm Empire. The Cumans were fierce and formidable nomadic warriors of the Eurasian steppe who exerted an enduring impact on the medieval Balkans. They were numerous, culturally sophisticated, and militarily powerful.