Subashi
Subashi (Subašï) is a sunken city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China . It is located in the Taklamakan Desert on the ancient Silk Road near the city of Kuqa .
The city was partially excavated by the Japanese archaeologist Count Otani .
The French mission under the direction of the sinologist Paul Pelliot also stopped in Subashi in 1907.
A sarira , a Buddhist reliquary from the 6th-7th centuries discovered in Subashi . Century, shows people of Central Asia in long shirt blouses ("tunics"), - reminiscences of other friezes, which were called Tocharian .
The "Witch of Subashi," the mummy of a woman with a huge spotted hat, is another famous archaeological artifact. She is considered to represent an earlier population that lived in the region before the beginning of our time.
Buddhist monastery
The site of the Buddhist monastery of Subashi ( 蘇巴什 佛寺 遺址 , Subashi Fosi yizhi ) has been on the Monuments of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang (4-45) since 1996 and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site with the title Silk Roads: the Road Network since 2014 of the Chang'an Tianshan Corridor .
Central Asians, detail of the sarirabox.
Central Asians, detail of the sarirabox.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed February 7, 2019 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 51 ′ 21 ″ N , 83 ° 2 ′ 49 ″ E