This is true for the collections of cultural objects from Uzbekistan and other countries of Central Asia.
The musical heritage of Uzbekistan, stored in the Hermitage, deserves a separate study. Forms of music-related articles from Afrasiab are represented in this album in a series of terracotta items featuring figures of wailers, musicians with lineal and transverse pipes, a lute, and a “model” of a lute.
Among the famous terracotta pieces are also the following items: a musician holding a Pan flute from the site of Zartepe, Surkhandarya region, Uzbekistan (No. A-2549), dated to circa 1st – 4th century AD; a musician with a lute, from the fortress of Bazar-qala in Khorezm (late BC – early AD); discovered by the expedition of S. P. Tolstov (No. CA-7133). According to music expert R. L. Sadokov, it resembled a two-string plucked instrument.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Musical Legacy of Uzbekistan in Collections of the Russian Federation" (Volume VI) from the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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