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Mug

castle, Turkistan
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    …the great feudal castle of Mug survive. Among the objects excavated there was part of a wooden shield with the painted figure of a rider (State Hermitage Museum), which foreshadows a type commonly found in Islamic Persian book illumination. Mounted on a splendidly caparisoned horse, he wears a tunic of…

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    …the great feudal castle of Mug survive. Among the objects excavated there was part of a wooden shield with the painted figure of a rider (State Hermitage Museum), which foreshadows a type commonly found in Islamic Persian book illumination. Mounted on a splendidly caparisoned horse, he wears a tunic of…

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