MAAAT-STC-DOM-001Collection

The domovina: the “house of the dead”

Domovina (Ukrainian domovyna, Belarusian damavina), formed on dom, «house»: the word calls «house» that which receives the dead. In Ukrainian it means both the grave and the coffin, and Hrinčenko’s dictionary already gave «coffin» as its first sense. In Belarusian it is the plank box in which the dead are laid. In popular Russian Dal’ records it as a synonym of grob, «coffin», and in the dialects of Pskov, Novgorod, Vologda and Kostroma as a coffin hollowed from a single trunk

Origin: Borščëvo
Period: VI-XI

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Abstract dcterms:abstract: A funerary practice that provides the deceased with a wooden house: from log chambers built within Slavic burial mounds between the 6th and 11th centuries, to urns placed on poles, and finally to small house-shaped memorials in Old Believer cemeteries, documented up to the 20th century.en
Type dcterms:type: Territorial record — Place