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English:
Details of a copy of mural called The Ambassordors' Painting, found in the hall of the ruin of an aristocratic house in Afrasiab, commissioned by the king of Samarkand, Varkhuman (ca. 650)
Français :
Procession avec le roi de Samarcande (détail), peinture murale d’Afrasyab, mur sud. Musée d’Afrasyab, Samarcande. – Image (pp. 110—111) dan le livre
De Kaboul à Samarcande : Les archéologues en Asie centrale
par Svetlana Gorshenina et Claude Rapin, collection «
Découvertes Gallimard
/ Archéologie » (nº 411), description à la page 155. Éditions Gallimard, 2001.
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| Source | scanned from The Silk Road: trade, travel, war and faith, pg. 106 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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Description from http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afrasiab-ii-wall-paintings-2 :"The wall painting shows four geese and, more remarkably, an un-mounted horse, accompanied by men wearing the padām, the traditional face mask of Mazdean priests, and two men with sacrificial maces, sitting atop a camel. This scene could be interpreted as a parade of priests and sacrificial animals, which is, moreover, followed by a larger horse with a large rider."