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Good comparative materials for the "banners and drums" of the Afrasiab murals come frome Chinese pictorial representations:
Above: "Banners and drums" on a mural painting of the Liao dynasty, from Kulun (province Kirin, China, AD 1088). [After Rorex, R. A.: Some Liao tomb murals and images of nomads in Chinese paintings of the Wen-chi story - In: Artibus Asiae (Ascona), vol. XLV, 1984, pp. 174-198, fig. 8]
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Left: "Banners and drums" in Mongolia - detail from a Chinese picture-roll with illustrations of the "Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute (Hujia shihbapai)", Southern Song dynasty (AD 1127-1279), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Author's sketch after Sirén, O.: Chinese painting, pt. I, vol. III, London, New York 1956, pl. 316] |
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