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Fig. 90. Ślęża. “The Boar”. The archives of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

which originally reached 5 m, and was reshaped into a cross, so only the feet of the original figurę have survived. It probably used to represent two bodies leaning against each other’s back, which can be induced from the two pairs of legs visible up to the knees (Antoniewicz, 1921, p. 98-101; Sokołowska, 1928, p. 126-128).

Two stone statues were found in Stavchany in Podolia. The bigger one shows a bearded man in a cap, holding a horn in his hands. The back surface of the sculpture realistically imitates the shape of human back, under which a horse is engraved, so in a way the person is “sitting” on a horse. The other, smaller object only vaguely resembles a human figurę. The style of the sculptures, which suggests early medieval dating, ąuestions the rela-tionship between the statues and the settlement of the Chemiakhov culture revealed around the place of the find (Vinokur, 1967; 1970; 1972, p. 109-113; SSS, vol. 4, p. 241-242).

In 1950 in Ivankovtse near Kamenets Podolsky a four-sided pole with images of human faces preserved on three sides was discovered. It was set vertically in the ground, only slightly slanted. It was 1.8 m high and reached the depth of 70 cm below the ground level. Braychevsky and Dovzhenok’s excavations (1967) revealed a number of scattered holes and traces of huts around the statuę. The discoverers interpret the object as a sanctuary be-longing to the Chemiakhov culture from the 3rd-4th c. AD, although apart 214

Fig. 91. Ślęża. “The Mushroom”, a sculpture standing near St Ann’s church in Sobótka. The archives of the Institute of Arcbaeology and Ethnology of Ihe Polish Academy of Sciences.

from the pottery typical for that culture, the site contained also SIavonic pottery of the Luka Raykovetska and Pastyrsko type. The relation between the statuę and the holes around it has not been proved. Probably the sculpture was erected over the remains of a former settlement. As it shows close resemblance to the so-called Sviatovid from the Zbruch, it should be classified as a Slavonic relic. Other Finds from Ivankovtse included a herm with the top modelled as a head reaching 2.35 m, and a similar broken figurę nearly 3 metres long.

The most magniflcent example of Slavonic stone sculpture is the so--called Sviatovid from the Zbruch. It was found in this river near Liczkowice

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