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The Xi Xia Legacy in Sino-Tibetan Art of the Yuan Dynasty

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Fig 29.
On the left:
Top – a Buddha head,
excavated in Karakorum by the German-Mongolian expedition (2000-2004) at the site of the great stūpa temple built between 1235-1256,
(early 13th century date for the finds confirmed by TL and radiocarbon tests),
clay, 5,5 x 4,8 cm.
Mongolian Academy of Science (after. Dschingis Khan und Seine Erben, Das Weltreich der Mongolen [Genghis khan and his heirs, the Empire of the Mongols]. (München: Hirmer, 2005): fig.124).

Bottom – a Buddha head,
excavated in Karakorum by the Soviet-Mongolian expedition 1948-1949 at the site of the great stūpa temple built between 1235-1256,
height 7 cm.
the State Hermitage Museum (after Elikhina, 2014: 205,360, fig. MR-3251).

On the right:
Top – detail of fig. 26.
Bottom – detail of fig. 23.