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Tamara Talbot Rice
ANCIENT ARTS OF
CENTRAL ASIA

Ordos plaque of two men fighting, and their horses


Illustration 32, p41 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965
32 Bronze plaque from the Ordos region representing, as Griaznov suggests, an earlier scene from the same epic. The men, having abandoned their mounts, settle their disagreement by wrestling hand to hand, while the horses look on. c. third century BC
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32 Plaque: two men fighting, and their horses. Bronze openwork. Ordos region, c. third century BC. H. 2½″ (6.5), L. 5″ (12.8). Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, crown copyright

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