TO THE QUESTION ABOUT SEMIOTICS OF THE SPACE OF THE KASTEK SETTLEMENT: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS

Abstract

The article provides a semiotic analysis of the urban space of the medieval city of Kastek. In the era of the Turkic Kaganate and subsequent ethnocultural and state formations with a Turkic political dominant, the process of urbanization in the marginal zones of the sedentary agricultural culture intensified. In the pre-Mongol era, the local urban complex with general Muslim standards and standards in its medieval incarnation, motley multilingualism and ethnic assimilation of Sogdians and various Turkic-speaking peoples within the Karakhanid state, which is a model of medieval urbanized culture, is firmly established. Also on the materials of artifacts found during the excavations, reconstruction of some ritual and everyday practices characteristic of the urban culture of the medieval Turks Zhetysu was made. The functional analysis of artifacts proves that utilitarian objects and actions in traditional culture are imbued with symbols and there are equally, both everyday objects and sacred works of art of the urban culture of the Turks.