© РИА Томск. Юлия Соколова
TOMSK, Oct 20 – RIA Tomsk. Archaeologists
of Tomsk State University (TSU) have transferred for storage to the
State Hermitage Museum the finds discovered in 2021 during excavations
at the Oglakhty burial ground in Khakassia; delivery of the valuables
from Tomsk to Saint Petersburg by car took a week, the RIA Tomsk
correspondent reports from the scene.
Earlier it was
reported that participants of the complex archeological expedition of
Tomsk State University and the Hermitage Museum have discovered at the
Oglakhty burial ground the burials with objects of unique preservation.
Wooden utensils, fragments of fabric and plaster funerary mask were
found at the burial site for the first time since the 1960s. A week ago
the members of the expedition set off in a university car to St.
Petersburg with the finds.
"We reached St. Petersburg in exactly one week. The finds have been deposited at the Hermitage", – the correspondent reports.
According
to Svetlana Pankova, curator of the Oglakhty Collection of the State
Hermitage, the finds are waiting for restoration: "It is very good that
our restorer was at the excavation and knows how and in what conditions
the things were found".
"When everything has been
restored, the finds will be studied: they will be described, analogies
will be sought, and the materials of which they are made will be
studied. In addition, we will make an exhibition – both "live" and
virtual", – she said.
"The "live" exhibition will bring
together objects already kept in the Hermitage and new finds. She also
added that work on the virtual exhibition has already begun.
© РИА Томск. Юлия Соколова
Tomsk residents donated unique finds from excavations in Khakassia to the Hermitage Museum