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Harpist, Piandjikent


A larger image of a Harpist, Piandjikent.

Illustration 92, p109 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965
92 Wall-painting of a Sogdian harpist, in its elegance resembling the wooden statuette (Ill. 85), whilst its poetic quality is as marked as in the painting of the two riders opposite. Pandjikent, seventh century
92 Wall-painting (reconstruction): harpist with a halo. Piandjikent, seventh century. Photo: State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
Soghdian Murals at Piandjikent, an extract from ANCIENT ARTS OF CENTRAL ASIA by Tamara Talbot Rice


See the original of the Sogdian mural of a Harpist and a Battle, Piandjikent. Tajikistan National Museum of Antiquities.
More Sogdian murals from Panjakent (Panjīkant), 6th-8th Centuries