AISHA BIBI MAUSOLEUM'S TILES (IZRAZCY) IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CENTRAL STATE MUSEUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

 The article deals with the tiles (Izrazcy) belonging to the Aisha bibi mausoleum near Taraz city. The dating of the tiles, as well as the mausoleum itself, is still quite controversial. After processing and describing some of the tiles from the collection of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan new features and details, important for solving questions of chronology and the use of individual decorative elements in the building, become clear. The local Taraz School of tile making was formed in pre-Mongolian time, in the XI-XII centuries, but some tiles have quite late features of the XIII-XIV centuries. It can be assumed that the traditions, techniques of creating architectural decoration and decorative elements do not disappear after the Mongol conquest of Taraz, but receive further development.

Materals and methods: As the material of the study was a collection of tiles of Aisha Bibi mausoleum from the archaeological collection of the CSM RK. The methodological basis of the research contains the principles of historicism, objectivity and systematic approach, which allowed combining different methods of analysis and synthesis. In this article were used historical-comparative, system-analytical and statistical methods, which ensured the solution of the set tasks.