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Embroidered fragment showing a head of a Hun


A larger image of this Embroidered fragment showing a head of a Hun, Noin Ula, first century AD onwards.
Source
Referenced as Illustration 40, p49 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965
40 Embroidered fragment showing a head which has something of the quality of a portrait. Noin Ula, first century AD onwards
40 Wall-hanging (detail): head of a Hun. Embroidery. Noin Ula, 25th barrow, c. first century AD onwards. Photo: State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
Noin Ula is east of Lake Baikal, see map


See also 'Doe hunter', embroidery. Xiongnu Burial Mound 20, Noin Ula, Mongolia, first decade of the first century AD