Historical and cultural park ancient Merv.

“The most sensational finds from Gebekly-depe are over 1000 Parthian bulls - clay articles of different forms with the impressions of seals which served for sealing the writing documents, vessels, doors etc. Depictions on the impressions include more than 30 plots. These plots follow different iconographic traditions: local ancient Margianian (various geometric ornaments) etc”

Museum walks across ancient Merv.

Ancient site of ancient settlement Gebekly concerns to early Parthian to the period. Is in 32 kilometers from Gyaur-Kala. This ancient small town has appeared near to settlement ancient Margian peoples, behind fortifications Antiokha (Gyaur-Kala).
At Gebekly the citadel with entrance in the form of a ramp has been constructed by square a fortress. On a site of ancient settlement have found potter's and the jewels testifying to craft in city. Gebekly is the ancient town site in the centre of Merv oasis situated 32 km to the north-west of Gyaur-kala.
It represents a square (88x88 m) in plan. Ruins tower 12-13 m high above the locality. In the centre of the site there is a large building of the Parthian Period - the House of Ruler. Living and ceremonial premises occupied its centre and the system of bypass corridors was arranged along the periphery.
The monument was surrounded by fortress walls along its perimeter. Gate was in the middle of the southern wall. There are no traces of building around the fortress. For the first time Gebekly-depe was marked by the American expedition in Turkestan (at the beginning of the XX c.).
Archaeological explorations carried out by the joint Russian-Turkmen expedition (G.A.Koshelenko, A.Gubaev) during 1980-s and 1997 - 2001 have allowed us to determine 4 principal periods of the site occupation:
1) time of its erection - before I c. A.D. (Yaz - III period);
2) Parthian time – I - II cc. A.D.;
3) the early Sasanian time - III c. A.D.;
4) IV c. A.D.
The fortress walls of Gebekly-depe find their parallels in the fortifications of the later fortress - Chilburj (in-wall corridor, rectangular towers divided in segments etc.). The most sensational finds from Gebekly-depe are over 1000 Parthian bulls - clay articles of different forms with the impressions of seals which served for sealing the writing documents, vessels, doors etc.
Depictions on the impressions include more than 30 plots. These plots follow different iconographic traditions: local ancient Margianian (various geometric ornaments) etc. Ancient Oriental (a king sitting on the throne, a horse before the altar) and Hellenistic ones (portrayals of Pegasus, a naked male figure).

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