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A Victorious Return
Sogdian Mural on an upper register in the ‘Blue Room’: Rustam cycle

Photo by Oleg Belaychuk
Part of a multi-level painting of the 'Blue Hall'
Painting with glue paints on dry loess plaster
c. 740 AD
Penjikent. Object VI, room 41, northwest corner and north wall
Receipt: 1967, from the excavations of 1956–1957.
Held by the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Mural Painting "Rustemiada". Blue Hall
Back to the smaller images of A Victorious Return, Sogdian mural from Panjakent, c.740AD. State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.