The Sogdian Paintings at Afrasyab (Old Samarkand).doc

The7thcenturySogdianpaintingsoftheso-calledHalloftheAmbassadorsatAfrasyabhavebeeninterestingstudentofCentralAsianartandarchaeologysincetheirdiscoveryhappenedin1965.Inthelast40yearsthepublicationofseveralspecificstudies1allowedtofindasolutioncommonlyacceptedbymostofthescholars2tothegeneralmeaningofthescenesrepresentedintheAfrasyabmuralpaintings.SuchsolutionismostlybasedontheobservationofthesamepaintingsandonliterarytextsexternaltoproperSogdianasincetheinscriptionsfoundatAfrasyab3wer