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22-558: Local inhabitants at Sampul cemetery (Shanpula; سامپۇل / 山普拉 ) around 14 km (8.7 mi) where art such as the Sampul tapestry has been found, buried their dead from roughly 217 BCE to 283 CE. The analysis of mtDNA haplogroup distribution showed that the Sampula inhabitants had a large mixture of East Asian , West-Asian and European characteristics. According to Chengzhi et al. (2007), analysis of maternal mitochondrial DNA of

44-643: A cultural link between Loulan and Khotan. The existence of this tapestry tends to suggest that contacts between the Hellenistic kingdoms of Central Asia and the Tarim Basin , at the edge of the Chinese world, occurred from around the 3rd century BC. The tapestry is on permanent display in the Xinjiang Museum, Ürümqi , China . Centaur and head fragments of the tapestry have been a part of

66-461: A dagger tucked on his waist. He wears a tunic with rosette motifs. His headband could be a diadem , a symbol of kingship in the Hellenistic world – and represented on Macedonian and other ancient Greek coinage . The centaur is playing a horn ( salpinx ) while wearing a cape and a hood. Surrounding him is a diamond-shaped floral ornament. His cape is made of the Nemean lion skin and the centaur

88-694: A major exhibition China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD , held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , from 12 October 2004 to 23 January 2005. From 18 February to 5 June 2011, they were displayed at the Penn Museum , Philadelphia , in exhibition Secrets of the Silk Road . Aksu Prefecture Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

110-593: A pair of man's trousers (all the other trousers found in Sampul had no decoration). It is uncertain where the tapestry was made, although the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in Central Asia has been suggested to be a possibility. The technique used for the tapestry, with more than 24 threads of different colours, is a typically Western one. The centaur's cape and hood are a central Asian modification of

132-435: Is a reference to both Heracles and Chiron (the mentor of Achilles ). Due to heavy looting at the location, the dating of the material is uncertain. It has been assigned dates from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD. The tapestry was excavated in 1983–1984 at an ancient burial ground in Sampul (Shanpula), 30 km east of Hotan (Khotan), in the Tarim Basin . The tapestry was, curiously, fashioned into

154-474: Is known for its silk and carpets. The county's economy is primarily agricultural, producing cotton, wheat, corn and silkworm cocoons. Industries in the county include tractor repair, concrete, carpets, and silk reeling. As of 1885, there was about 44,300 acres (293,944 mu) of cultivated land in Lop. According to the 2002 census, it had a population of 240,000. At the end of 2008, 98% of the population of Lop County

176-639: Is located in Northern Hanggiya Township . The towns and townships are clustered around the oases around the highways in the southern part of the county. The southern tip of the county reaches the Kunlun Mountains . At 5,466 m (17,933 ft) above sea level, the highest point in the county is Tekiliktag (Tiekelekeshan, T'ieh-k'o-li-k'o Shan; تەكىلىكتاغ / 铁克勒克山 ). The county includes 1 subdistrict , 4 towns , 5 townships , and 1 other area: Other: The county

198-555: Is that it is locally made as Tang annal New Book of Tang mentioned that local people of Khotan were good at textile and tapestry work when Emperor Wu of Han (r. 141-87 BC) opened the Silk Road to Khotan during the first century BC. The tapestry may have been made roughly a century before the Han Chinese conquest of the Tarim Basin under Wudi. Hellenistic tapestries have also been found in Loulan by Aurel Stein , indicating

220-635: The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (formed after the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great of Macedon and establishment of the Seleucid Empire ). It may represent a Yuezhi soldier, in red jacket and trousers, from the 1st century CE. Alternatively, the soldier (king) is possibly a Greco-Bactrian, an Hellenized Saka or a Greco-Saka military aristocrat. The man's head features (cheek, mouth, blue eyes, nose, hairband ) and

242-539: The World Uyghur Congress , in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics , authorities in Lop county forced women to remove head coverings in a stated effort to promote "women for the new era". On October 21, 2014, Sampul township was re-designated as a town. At 9 PM on May 11 and 8:15 AM on May 12, 2015, two suicide bombings at a security checkpoint station in the county resulted in six deaths and four injured. On November 20, 2016, Hanggiya (Hanggui)

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264-456: The Greek motif. The fact that he plays a horn also distinguishes him from the Greek prototypes. Flower diamond motif on the warrior's lapel is of central Asian origin. Certain motifs, particularly the animal head on the soldier's dagger, suggest that the tapestry originated in the kingdom of Parthia in northern Iran. Rome has also been proposed as a possible source. Another suggestion

286-677: The Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center and hair products made in the Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park. The northern part of Lop County is made up of sand dunes and ends in a straight line drawn in the Taklamakan Desert that forms part of the boundary between Hotan Prefecture and Aksu Prefecture . The Hotan River forms the boundary with Karakax County . The National Closed Sandified Land Protected Area

308-587: The county. To increase aid delivery to Xinjiang, places in Xinjiang are paired with other areas of China which can provide aid. Tianjin and Hotan are paired in this program. In July 2019, football equipment and training materials with pictures and videos to local youth players and football coaches were provided for primary school students in the county. On September 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security blocked imports of products from four entities in Xinjiang including all products made with labor from

330-513: The human remains has revealed genetic affinities at the maternal side to Ossetians and Iranians , an Eastern-Mediterranean paternal lineage. Archaeologist Aurel Stein visited Rawak Stupa during his First Central Asian expedition in April 1901. Lop County was established in August 1902. In May 1956, Abdimit, a Sufi shaykh from Khotan, attempted to incite insurrection in the county which

352-418: The left decorative border of what would be a much bigger wall hanging. Made of wool, it comprises 24 threads of various colours. The tapestry depicts a man with Caucasoid features, (including blue eyes), and a centaur . If lost fabric is accounted for, the soldier would be about six times as tall as the centaur. The subject is identified as a warrior by the spear he is holding in his hand as well as

374-471: The population was Han Chinese. In 1952, the population of Lop was 123,608. Sampul tapestry Sampul tapestry is an ancient woolen wall-hanging found at the Tarim Basin settlement of Sampul in Lop County , Hotan Prefecture , Xinjiang , China, close to the ancient city of Khotan . The object has many Hellenistic period features, including a Greek centaur and diadem , linking it to

396-511: The spear representation are modeled similarly with the depiction of Alexander the Great on a medallion found from Roman Egypt (215-243 AD) and could represent the king. Overall, the Sampul tapestry belongs to the Greco-Bactrian culture. The full tapestry is 48 cm wide and 230 cm long. The centaur fragment is 45 cm by 55 cm, warrior's face fragment is 48 cm by 52 cm. The recovered tapestry only constitutes

418-402: Was Uyghur and 1.9% of the population was Han Chinese . As of 2015, 282,513 of the 287,590 residents of the county were Uyghur , 4,895 were Han Chinese and 182 were from other ethnic groups. As of the 2010s, the population of the county, reported as 280,000 by The Guardian , was almost entirely Uyghur . As of 1999, 98.6% of the population of Lop (Luopu) County was Uyghur and 1.36% of

440-918: Was changed from a township into a town. Marriages between Uyghurs and Han Chinese persons are encouraged with subsidies by the government. In October 2017, the marriage of a Han Chinese man from Henan Province to a Uyghur woman from the county was celebrated on the county's social media page. Hetian Haolin Hair Accessories, a company first registered at the Lop County Beijing Industrial Park ( 洛浦县北京工业园区 ) in 2018, employed 5,000 new workers in its first year of business, making 159 international shipments. The Lop County Beijing Industrial Park has been associated with re-education camp photographs. According to The Guardian , as of early 2019, there were eight internment camps , officially labelled "vocational training centres", in

462-412: Was not allowed during Ramadan , and that high school students in his town would be given candy before they left school at 4:30 p.m.. The official confirmed reports that Chinese authorities were continuing a program of heavy religious control and censorship. On July 11, 2006, the townships of Jiya and Yurungqash (Yulongkashi), then part of Lop County, were transferred to Hotan City. According to

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484-464: Was put down by armed troops and police forces. The Sampul tapestry was discovered in Sampul in the mid-1980s. Between August 1986 and May 1987, an outbreak of viral hepatitis occurred in Dol (Duolu) township resulting in 9,371 cases of acute hepatitis and 47 deaths. In 2004, an official who declined to be identified from the Lop county religious affairs committee told Radio Free Asia that fasting

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