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Rubbing of the gravestone of Elizabeth, Yangzhou, 1317

Place: Yangzhou · today China
Date: 1317

Rubbing of the gravestone of Elizabeth (Yelishiba), wife of Xindu of the Great Capital, who died aged 33 in 1317. Angels flank a cross on a lotus above Chinese and Turkic inscriptions in Syriac script. Found at Yangzhou in 1981.

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Rubbing of the gravestone of Elizabeth, Yangzhou, 1317

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