The Cuman "Baba" from Stadnytsya

Statues from the Neolithic period to the Middle Ages

The name “Baba” refers to statues created on the steppe of Europe and Asia from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. In the collections of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków there is one relic of this kind – the Cuman baba (from Stadnytsya, currently Kiev Oblast in Ukraine). It was donated at the beginning of the 20th century by Ernest Rohoziński.

Fotografia kolorowa. Kamienny posąg przedstawiający kobietę. Postać nie ma rysów twarzy. Ubrana jest w kaftan sięgający do kolan i spiczasty kapelusz. W złożonych na wysokości pasa dłoniach trzyma prostokątne naczynie.

The creators of the statue are the Cumans, a nomadic people which in the 11th century travelled from the area of the upper Irtysh River to the steppe of the contemporary Ukraine and Russia.
The stone stele represents a standing woman of natural size, but of disproportionate physique. She is dressed in a caftan reaching down to her knees and a tall hat, at the back of her head she has “horns” (ornaments made from felt rollers hemmed with a fabric), on her ears earrings, on her neck a necklace in the form of a decorative rod, a pouch at her waist, and in hands joined on her stomach she has a vessel. Her face details were removed for unknown reasons.
The statue from Stadnytsya is from c. the 12th/13th century.

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