TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wagner, Mayke
A1  - Bo, Wang
A1  - Tarasov, Pavel E.
A1  - Westh-Hansen, Sidsel Maria
A1  - Völling, Elisabeth
A1  - Heller, Jonas
T1  - The ornamental trousers from Sampula (Xinjiang, China): their origins and biography
N2  - 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.
KW  - China
KW  - Tarim
KW  - Xinjiang
KW  - Iron Age
KW  - Greek
KW  - Macedonian
KW  - textiles
KW  - wall hanging
KW  - trousers
KW  - centaur
KW  - Xiongnu
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61396
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-613962
SN  - 1745-1744
N1  - Postprint, ursprünglich in : Antiquity, 83.2009, 322, S. 1065 - 1075, doi:10.1017/S0003598X0009935X
ER  -