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Mural of Riders, Sector III, room 17, Piandjikent
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

A larger image of this Mural of Riders, Sector III, Room 17. Sogdian Piandjikent (Penjikent). State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

RIDERS
Painting with glue paints on dry loess plaster
First half of the 8th century
Penjikent. Sector III, room 17
Accession: from excavations in 1955

A fragment of the painting was located on the end wall of a rectangular room such as a corridor. The image of a horseman and a horsewoman leading the cavalcade has been preserved. The man has sharp features of a face shown in profile with thin tendrils hanging downwards. The figure of the rider obscures most of the female figure, who holds his right hand with the index finger raised. The background of the painting is red, while the images themselves are not filled with colour, but the white colour of the ground is left.
Photo by Oleg Belaychuk