The ornamental trousers from Sampula (Xinjiang, China): their origins and biography
- 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.
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| Author: | Mayke Wagner, Wang Bo, Pavel E. Tarasov, Sidsel Maria Westh-Hansen, Elisabeth Völling, Jonas HellerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-613962 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1744 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/01/02 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/06/29 |
| Tag: | China; Greek; Iron Age; Macedonian; Tarim; Xinjiang; Xiongnu; centaur; textiles; trousers; wall hanging |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| Note: | Postprint, ursprünglich in : Antiquity, 83.2009, 322, S. 1065 - 1075, doi:10.1017/S0003598X0009935X |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 48475128X |
| Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Philosophie |
| Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
