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Stucco Figures from Kizil in the Tarim Basin
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Photo by Oleg Belaychuk
Collected by Sergei Fedorovich Oldenburg and published in S. Oldenburg. Russkaja Turkestanskaja Ekspedicija.
Referenced as figure 62 on p.57, Bilderatlas zur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Mittel-Asiens : vol.1 by Albert von Le Coq,
fig. 62. Qyzil. Ritter, 8. Jhdt. (?).
Abgewandelter Wehrkragenpanzer. Die Rosetten auf der Brust tragen als Apotropaeum Löwenkopf oder Gorgoneion. Jüngere Form des Spangenhelms m. Kegel; die Flügel sind abgebrochen. Nach S. v. Oldenburg. Russkaja Turkestanskaja Ekspedicija.
fig. 62 Kizil. Rider, 8th century. (?).
Modified armoured defense collar. The rosettes on the chest worn as apotropaic (intended to ward off evil) lions head or Gorgon. More recent shape of the Spangenhelm with [pine]cone; the wings are broken off. After S. v. Oldenburg. Russkaia Turkestanskaia Ekspeditsiia.