sampul

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1. A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula).”

   “A remarkably Greek- looking male portrait, from a third- or second- century BC woollen wall-hanging found at Sampul”

   “At the site of Sampul (or Shanpula), near the southwestern Tarim Basin oasis of Luopu, a Saka grave has yielded a piece of woven woolen cloth [Fig. 2] that shows Hellenistic and Persian inspiration in the depictions of a centaur and a lance-bearing warrior (Xinjiang weiwu'er 2001).”

   “Like nearly all of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cemeteries encircling the Tarim Basin, the complex at Sampul lies on the gravelly tableland or terrace that is located between the desert floor and the foothills of the mountains beyond, the source of the meltwater from the glaciers that sustains life in the oases.”