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Rustam slaying the Dragon,
Sogdian Mural in the ‘Blue Room’: Rustam cycle



PART OF THE MULTI-LEVEL PAINTING OF THE FRONT ("BLUE") HALL
Painting with glue paints on dry loess plaster
c. 740 BC
Penjikent. Section VI, room 41, northwest corner and north wall
Receipt: 1967, from excavations 1956-1957.
Photo by Oleg Belaychuk

Held by the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Mural Painting "Rustemiada". Blue Hall

Back to the smaller image of Rustam slaying the Dragon, Sogdian mural from Panjakent, c.740AD. State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.