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

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Fig 30.
A Buddha Amitabha figure,
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, 30 x 18 cm.
(after. Dschingis Khan und Seine Erben, Das Weltreich der Mongolen [Genghis khan and his heirs, the Empire of the Mongols]. (München: Hirmer, 2005): fig. 112).