Sunday, June 28, 2015

The Kara Khitan Phoenix Cunberbund

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I picked the SAMOA Cumberbund because it is so typicallally Kara Khitanian but at the same time related in configuration to the Phoenix of the Armenian manuscripts.

Liao dynasty bronze twin phoenix cummerbund (907-1125) from China at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX.
Photo by Jim Steinhart © 2014, all rights reserved. (Ref: TXAA725)

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