Original sentence: Chinese statuary and paintings, as well as the Bactrian coin shown above, indicate that these horses had legs that were proportionally short, powerful crests, and round barrels.Dayuan, north of Bactria, was a nation centered in the Ferghana Valley of present-day Central Asia, and even as early as the Han Dynasty, China projected its military power to that area.Ferghana horses  () were one of China's earliest major imports, originating in an area in Central Asia.However,  there are other views:  the Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han provide no description of Ferghana horses, and as it seemed from these chronicles they were not employed in any known Han expeditions and campaigns.These horses, as depicted in Tang Dynasty pottery representations of them, "resemble the animals on the golden medal of Eucratide, King of Bactria (Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris)
Edited sentence: Chinese statuary and paintings, as well as the Bactrian coin shown above, possibly of Ferghana horses may have indicate that these horses had legs that were proportionally short, powerful crests, and round barrels.Dayuan was a nation in present-day Ferghana valley, and even as early as the Han Dynasty, China projected its military power to that distant realm.Ferghana horses () were the horses acquired by China through war, originating in an area in Bactria.Fleitmann Bloodgood (1931) believes that these horses, as may depicted in Tang Dynasty pottery of supposed representations of them, "resemble the animals on the golden medal of Eucratide, King of Bactria (Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris).Little is known about the Ferghana horses.The Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han provides no description of Ferghana horses, and as it seemed from the chronicles they were not employed in any known Han expeditions and campaigns