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life. The badly battered body lay on a low platform at the back of the chamber, which measured
approximately 12 feet by 10. From the decayed fabrics in which the body had been wrapped the
fragments of figured or painted silk, Ast. iii. 2. 03-4 (Pl. LXXVIII), and of the patterned silk
gauze, 01 (Pl. XXXVI), and veiling, 02 (Pl. XXXVI), were recovered. In front of the platform
but thrown on one side lay the clay figure of a monster (Fig. 325), with a grinning human head and
the body like that of a panther, sitting on its haunches and wearing a three-cornered hat. The
grotesque head was well modelled, the colouring of the whole crude. The body was painted pink
in front and blue at the back, both sides being covered with bright red spots. A bushy blue tail
and four wing feathers found broken added to the grotesque look of the monster. Like the other
two monsters to be mentioned presently, this demon was probably meant to keep off evil spirits
from the abode of the dead, like the T'u-kuei figures found in T'ang tombs of China.
The small niche on the west of the anteroom next to the tomb proper held another monster,
seen on the left in Fig. 325, with a half-human boar-like head showing prominent green eyebrows
and wearing a peaked cap in rainbow colours. Its body was painted yellow with bright red spots.
In the opposite niche was found a third monster, Ast. iii. 2. 059 (Pl. XCVI), which being in better
preservation than the others could be safely removed and is fully described in the List below. It
carries on a lion-like body a head suggesting that of a dragon, painted in brilliant if not harmonious
colours, still very fresh. Here, too, the curving wings were made of painted wood, while the heavy
brush-like tail is of clay and shows variegated bands of vivid colours. The exact identification
of the demonic guardians intended must be left to Sinologist students.
In the same eastern niche were found lying in disorder the clay figures of the two saddled horses,
iii. 2. 057–8 (Pl. XCV, XCVII), and of a camel equally well modelled but unfortunately badly
broken. The former are about two feet high and very spirited and carefully executed representa-
tions of the type of horse that frequently appears in T'ang sculpture and is represented also in some
of the Ch'ien-fo-tung paintings.² With their small well-shaped heads and long necks they distinctly
recall the present Badakhshī breed, which is highly prized on both sides of the Pāmīrs. The same
type, though less carefully rendered, is found also in the other clay horses from the same tomb,
iii. 2. 014–16, 20–1 (Pl. XCIX). The representation of the saddles and saddle-cloths on those two
horses is likewise very careful and interesting. The ornamentation of the latter undoubtedly is
meant to reproduce the embroidery design on 'Numdahs' or felts such as are still used throughout
Turkestān in 'horse millinery'. The elaborate flower and palmette patterns, found on the
saddle of iii. 2. 058 (Pl. XCV), closely resemble the floral designs used as decorative motifs in
the framing of certain Ch'ien-fo-tung silk pictures and wall-paintings.³
In the niche on the opposite side and in front of it there lay in confusion an assortment of
clay horses of smaller size, with figures of riders either still adhering to them or alongside. Special
interest attaches to the careful representation of the saddlery of the horses, iii. 2. 014–16, 20–1
(Pl. XCIX, XCIX. A). It includes narrow high-peaked saddles placed on tiger-skin saddle-cloths and
white Numdahs, with straps flowing from the back of the saddles, just as they appear in sculptures
and paintings of T'ang times. Among other items of 'horse-millinery' notice may be taken of
the elaborate decoration of the trappings with large tassels, such as are also seen on the horse shown
by a painted panel from Dandān-oilik and on Sasanian relief sculptures.⁴ The figures of the riders
are with one exception those of men (iii. 2. 012–13, 23–4, Pl. XCIX, CII), dressed either in scale-
armour and pointed helmet of mail or in tight-fitting coats with high-lobed caps such as form part
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