The ornamental trousers from Sampula (Xinjiang, China)
Their Origins and Biography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3203627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mayke Wagner (0000-0003-3407-6102, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale, corresponding author), Bo Wang (0000-0002-0290-2134, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), Wang Bo (0000-0002-1494-1333), Pavel E Tarasov (0000-0002-7219-5009, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), Pavel Tarasov (0000-0003-0408-2210), Sidsel Maria Westh-Hansen (Aarhus University), Elisabeth Völling (University of Würzburg), Jonas Heller (0000-0002-3214-0724, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 322 |
| Pages | 1065-1075 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x0009935x |
| OpenAlex | W2277144532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 8 |
A decorated pair of trousers excavated from a well-preserved tomb in the Tarim Basin proved to have a highly informative life history, teased out by the authors - with archaeological, historical and art historical dexterity. Probably created under Greek influence in a Bactrian palace, the textile started life in the third/second century BC as an ornamental wall hanging, showing a centaur blowing a war-trumpet and a nearly life-size warrior of the steppe with his spear. The palace was raided by nomads, one of whom worked a piece of the tapestry into a pair of trousers. They brought no great luck to the wearer who ended his days in a massacre by the Xiongnu, probably in the first century BC. The biography of this garment gives a vivid glimpse of the dynamic life of Central Asia at the end of the first millennium
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · China · Luck · Spear · Tarim basin · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Geology · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Paleontology
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| Citations per year | 0.73 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |