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Court art of Sogdian Samarqand in the 7th century AD

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Western wall

The left end of the western wall - (page I)

Below: This reconstruction from Al'baum's  book has some obviously wrong details:

image after Al'baum, Zhivopis' (1975)

Figure 27 seems to look towards us but the person stands with his back to the beholder (look below, left:)

image by S. Stark (2000)     image by M. Mode (1988)

Above left: Note the long plait of hair falling down. In Al'baums drawing the left hand of figure 27 certainly is misplaced. Cp. above right: the close-up makes clear that the hand rests on the hip. Read more on figure 27

In our next page we continue the discussion of the left end of the western wall.


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