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0432 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 432 (Color Image)

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must be accorded to that remarkable series of clay seal-impres-
sions which were found still intact on a number of tablets and some
of which can be presented here from well-executed drawings of my
friend Mr. F. H. Andrews (see below and p. 385). From an
historical point of view they claim exceptional interest, for they
have furnished convincing evidence of the way in which the influence
of classical Western art asserted itself even in distant Khotan. It
was a delightful surprise when, on cleaning the first intact seal
impression that turned up, I recognised in it the figure of Pallas
Athene, with aegis and thunder-bolt, treated in an archaic fashion.
This particular seal (seen though not so distinctly as elsewhere
on the covering tablet reproduced on p. 395) was found there-