Photograph · IllustrationAA-0594
Mural of a rider from the East Syriac church at Tangchaodun, Xinjiang
- Place
- Xinjiang
- Date
- 9th century
Fragment of a wall painting showing a rider on a red horse, excavated at the ruined East Syriac (Church of the East) church at Tangchaodun, Qitai County, Xinjiang. Commons notes a circled cross on the rider's head. Dated by the source to the 8th-9th century.
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Wikimedia Commons (from reporting on the Xibeisi / Tangchaodun excavations)
Unknown painter · Public domain (per Commons).
