File:Kucha Turtle King Jataka.jpg

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English: Jataka about the benevolent prince-turtle
Date 5th century
date QS:P571,+450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
or 6th century
date QS:P571,+550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium
English: Loess, straw, glue-based pigments painted on dry plaster
Dimensions height: 28 cm (11 in); width: 22 cm (8.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,28U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,22U174728
institution QS:P195,Q132783
Current location
Oriental Art
Accession number
ВД-628
Place of discovery Cave of the Musicians (No. 38), Kizil, Kucha
Object history
  • acquired by third German Turfan expedition, led by Albert Grünwedel (1905–1907)
  • collection of Ethnological Museum, Berlin, until 1945
References
  • Elikhina, Julia (2013). "The Renovated Central Asia Exhibit in the State Hermitage Museum". The Silk Road 11: 154–171. p. 157, fig. 7.
Source/Photographer photo taken by Sgnpkd in St Petersburg 2015-06-09

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