page_title: Sampul tapestry
hierarchical_section_title: Sampul tapestry
caption_attribution_description: 中文（繁體）‎: 山普拉掛毯，現藏位於烏魯木齊的新疆維吾爾自治區博物館。該掛毯的發現表明，也許於公元前3–2世紀時，希臘化文明就已伴隨希臘人的東征傳入新疆。 中文（简体）‎: 也许在前3，2世纪希腊人的东征已经将希腊文化带入了新疆。该图现存于中国新疆乌鲁木齐博物馆。本图像来自英文版。 English: Probable Greek soldier, woollen wall hanging, II century BC - III century AD , Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum. Français&#160;: Tapisserie en laine d'Asie Centrale ornée d'un centaure dans sa partie supérieure. IIe siècle avant notre ère - IIIe siècle de notre ère. Mise au jour en 1984, Sampula, tombe 1. laine 116 cm x 48 cm. Musée de la Région autonome ouïghoure du Xinjiang, D13360. N° 118 in Catalogue&#160;: La Route de la soie: Un voyage à travers la vie et la mort, Fonds Mercator, Bruxelles, 2009. ISBN&#160;978-906153-892-9.&#160;: Zhao Feng (citation p. 151)&#160;: "Tapisserie extrêmement serrée à reflets irisés pour rendre les ombres sur le corps du centaure". Ref. author&#160;: Zhao Feng&#160;: Textiles from Dunhuang in UK Collections Shanghai, Donghua University Press, 2007. Ref. subject&#160;: James Watt&#160;: China, Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, New Haven/ London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2004, p. 101. Wieczorek, A. &amp; Lind, Ch. Ursprünge der Seidestrasse, Sensationelle Neuefunde aus Xinjiang, China, Mannheim/Stuttgart, Reiss-Englehorn-Museum/Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2007, p. 113.
context_page_description: The Sampul tapestry is an ancient woolen wall-hanging found at the Tarim Basin settlement of Sampul in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, close to ancient city of Khotan. The object has many Hellenistic period features, including a Greek centaur and diadem, linking it to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.
context_section_description: The Sampul tapestry is an ancient woolen wall-hanging found at the Tarim Basin settlement of Sampul in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, close to ancient city of Khotan. The object has many Hellenistic period features, including a Greek centaur and diadem, linking it to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (formed after the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great of Macedon and establishment of the Seleucid Empire).
caption: Probably Greek soldier, blue eyed, possibly with royal headband.
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