Reconstruction of a

Sogdian mural from Panjakent, 6th-8th Centuries

Dehkans Sitting at a Libation
Room VI/1


A larger image of Dehkans Sitting at a Libation - Sogdian mural from Panjakent.

Photo by Retlaw Snellac

Referenced as Illustration 91, p.108 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965
Roman Ghirshman, Persian Art. The Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties, New York (1962), Pl. 433, p.323, Fresco of Ritual Banquet Scene, Pyanjikent, VII-VIII centuries A.D.
Referenced as Fig. 15 in Elsie Holmes Peck, The Representation of Costumes in the Reliefs of Taq-i-Bustan. Artibus Asiae, Vol. 31, No. 2/3, 1969,.

This is part of the Rings and Dragons Cycle, The Two Kings Feasting. Sogdian Mural from Panjakent, Sector VI, Room 1, c. 700-722AD. Tajikistan National Museum of Antiquities, Dushanbe.
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