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A LARGE SOGDIAN SILK SAMITE FRAGMENT, CENTRAL ASIA, 7TH-9TH
A LARGE SOGDIAN SILK SAMITE FRAGMENT, CENTRAL ASIA, 7TH-9TH A fragment woven in red, brown and cream silks depicting a fight between a lion and a horse within a roundel above a band of brown Kufic script. 75 by 35 cm For a similar one published please see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 26th October 1997 4th January 1998, pp. 21-37.
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A LARGE SOGDIAN SILK SAMITE FRAGMENT, CENTRAL ASIA, 7TH-9TH
