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Right part of an Epic on the West Wall, Amazon Hall, Piandjikent
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
A detail of the middle rider:
PAINTING HALL (AMAZON HALL)
Painting with glue paints on dry loess plaster
c. 740
Penjikent. Sector XXI, room 1, southwest corner
Accession: 1964
In the first, lower tier, there are individual scenes illustrating short fables and stories (the tale of the blacksmith and the monkey,
the three wise men who resurrected the tiger, the goose laying the golden eggs, the lion and the hare).
The second tier of murals is devoted to an unknown plot, apparently of an epic nature, one of the main characters of which is a woman warrior.
Photos by Oleg Belaychuk
A detail of the leg of the right rider:
A detail of the boot of the middle rider:
The middle rider on the West Wall is referenced as figure 437 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
437. Fresco from Piandjikent Room XXI/1, 7th-8th centuries AD, Transoxanian, Hermitage, Leningrad (Aka S, Yaku).
