“YILAN QOBASI: THE GUARDIAN ROCKS OF THE SNAKE CAVE” / “ЙЫЛАН КЪОБАСЫ. КАМЕННЫЕ СТРАЖИ ЗМЕИНОЙ ПЕЩЕРЫ”
Date: May 19, 2013.
Materials: Graphite pencils (HB, 7B, 8B) & Derwent French gray dark pastel pencil on paper, 45x56 cm.
This place on Google maps:
[link]Wikipedia article:
[link]Related to my other graphic:
[link]«The Snake Cave (Yılan qobası) is located inside the nummulitic limestone
[link] rocks of the Scythian Cape (a.k.a. Cape Batareya or Cape Aç Qaya) right in the middle of the water divide of the inner range of the Crimean Mountains between the valleys of the two rivers: the Western Bulganak and the Alma
[link] . The cave is 320 meters long and has three floors. Contrary the cave’s name, there ain’t no snakes in it, however, you’re sure to meet a bunch of cute and human-friendly greater horseshoe bats of the genus Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
[link] . The cave has revealed numerous archeological finds. In VII—VI cc. B.C. it served as a shrine to the Tauric people of the Kizil-Koba culture
[link] ; and later as a Tauro-Scythian pagan temple».
«Змеиная пещера (Yılan qobası, Йылан къобасы)
[link] расположена в скале нуммулитовых известняков на Скифском мысе (он же «мыс Батарея» или «мыс Ач-кайа») в самом центре водораздельной зоны Внутренней гряды Крымских гор между долинами рек Западный Булганáк и Альмá. Пещера имеет 3 этажа и глубину 320 метров. Вопреки названию, змей вы здесь не найдёте, зато встретите популяцию симпатичных, не опасных для человека летучих мышей вида Большой подковонос (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
[link] . Культовая роль пещеры хорошо прослежена археологическими находками: в VII—VI веках до н. э. здесь было родовое святилище людей кизил-кобинской культуры, а позже — тавроскифское языческое капище».
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