Art from the Sogdian city of Penjakent 5th-8th C. CE

"The Sogdians’ keen interest in depicting the world around them (evidenced by the Hall of the Ambassadors at Afrasiab) and the mythological and supernatural worlds (in many of the Panjikent paintings just discussed) extended into portraying their own world. They did not, as Frantz Grenet points out, represent their mercantile activities, a major source of their wealth, but instead chose to show their enjoyment of it, such as the scenes of banqueting at Panjikent. In these paintings we see how the Sogdians saw themselves.

Chinese representations of Sogdians caricatured them (especially in grooms, musicians, and others of lower status) as having large noses and round eyes, and being heavy-set and generally comical or “barbaric” in appearance. In contrast, the Sogdians’ depictions of themselves show people with fine features—the men (unless rulers or nobles) usually clean-shaven, the women oval-faced and sloe-eyed." 

-taken from The Smithsonian

Female musician.

Female musician.

Female musician and duel, possibly between Rostam and Esfandiyar.

Reconstruction of the mural from a large private house.

Detail of the king's sword.

King and banquet scene.

A king.

King charging out on horse.

Left image from Eran ud Turan's twitter. Sogdian helmet reconstruction.

Possible Hephthalites (White Huns) in 3-crescent crowns.

Female deity?

Fallen amazon.

Fallen amazon.

Fallen amazon.

Mourning scene. Large four-armed figure may be Nana.

Lady in the Moon. Goddess Khshum?

Nana statue.

Another large mural from a private house.

Nana.

Goose with the golden eggs.

Temple II donors, 500 CE.

Private residence hall from a large house.

Temple II frieze of sea beings.

Sogdian seal still attached to enclosed parchment. Dated to before 722 CE.

Carved panel of deity with peacock framed by an arched niche, wood, ca. 700 CE, Panjikant (Tajikistan), object XXIII, room 57. (Drawing after Belenitskiĭ et al., p. 130, fig. 7).

Restoration. Masticing of a wall painting.

Mounting of a wall painting.

Mounting. Carbon Fiber.

Charred wood.

Charred wood.

Charred wood.

Charred wood.

Charred wood.

Charred wood.

Private residence decorations for a large house.

Charred wood. (Left) battle with a lion. (Right) deity with a peacock.

Charred wood, Goddess on a lion.

Charred wood.

Charred wood caryatid.

Charred wood caryatid.

Charred wood caryatid.

Charred wood caryatid.

Detail of temple fresco.

Reconstruction of city.

Four-armed Nana?

Hunting scene.

Hunting scene.

Shiva.

"King of the demons" according to source.

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Quote:

https://sogdians.si.edu/the-sogdians-at-home/