Крест Смолеговицы большой

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The "Izhorsky" cross type is adorned with relief carvings on all four sides. On the southeast side, at the top - two facing birds on two legs, with massive bodies, long necks and small heads. The birds stand on a beam from which begins a wide relief border, going along the edge of the wings of the cross and ending in the place of transition to the base of the cross a strip with the ornament "wolf's tooth". On the northwest side of the cross - a relief image of a 4-armed cross on a P-shaped footing, each wing of which ends in a three-armed crosspiece, repeating the shape of the large cross. The lower part of the cross is adorned with moldings: 5 from the southeast side, 4 on the northwest side of the cross, and by 3 on the sides. Height from the base stone 2.35 m, wingspan 1.25 m, thickness 0.4 m. Material: dolomite, Elizabethan suite, Upper Ordovician. Location: Leningrad region, Vologodsky district, village of Starie Smolegovichi.