Southern Tajikistan, 5-8C - TILE WITH THE SCENE OF HUNTING LEO.

The fired clay. 14 x 13 (thickness 1,5-2). Image is printed by stamp and to the kilning (fragment of some large article). Rider, going to the left, is inverted back to the side of the lion that tears the croup of horse. It is clear that the detail of the vestments of rider and horse harness, mane, paw and vortex rosette on the arm of lion were examined. Impression is bounded above by the narrow depressed groove, to the right - by relief plait with the narrowing; furthermore, it frames the circle, formed by the depressions of hollow circles. Judging by the arrangement of figures, composition was created for the reproduction in the circle (for example, in the locket). 7C „L„y„„.: „_„S ‡‚ 251.

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