<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><pres:item xmlns:pres="http://kulturarvsdata.se/presentation#"><pres:version>1.3.0</pres:version><pres:buildDate>2026-10-16</pres:buildDate><pres:itemLabel xml:lang="sv">fragment</pres:itemLabel><pres:dataQuality>Rådata</pres:dataQuality><pres:id>1064182</pres:id><pres:service>objekt</pres:service><pres:organization xml:lang="sv">Statens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museet</pres:organization><pres:organizationShort>SMVK-EM</pres:organizationShort><pres:type xml:lang="sv">Föremål</pres:type><pres:entityUri>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/1064182</pres:entityUri><pres:idLabel>1903.11.0213</pres:idLabel><pres:description xml:lang="sv">"Fragment of shoulder of big vessel with appliqué moulded relief representing a griffin." Montell 1936./Is

"Two more reliefs in the Hedin collection of which I have found no counterparts in other collections from Yotkan are reproduced in Pl. VI,1. Tey have been manufactured in the same mould, but as in one of them the head is missing and the other lacks the foot portion. I have caused a reconstruction to be made, Fig. 13. The motif is easily recognizable: it represents the garuda bird holding Nagas in its talons. As will be seen, the bird is shown in dir4ect front view. The beak is broad and parrot-like, roughly resembling the same motif as seen in the Lamaistic paintings. The plumage is distinctly defined, while the legs are powerful and issue from the bird´s body from the same point as the wings. The latter have lost all trace of naturalism and have been changed into acanthus leaves.
The bird´s talons rest against an ornament that without too great presumptio may be interpreted as Nagas. The middle portion consists of a trisected rectangle, surrounded by beads, at each end of which is placed a crocodile´s head. The motif must be regarded as very degenerate, but there cannot very well be any doubt as to its origin."

Montell har valt att kalla detta sagodjur med lejonkropp för grip, engelska griffin eller garudafågel./Is</pres:description><pres:content xml:lang="sv">Arkeologiskt föremål förvärvat i Borazan. Föremålen inköpta av Hedin från lokalbefolkningen. I brev hem av den 10 januari 1896 skriver Hedin: "Yesterday I visited the village of Borazan, where those remarkable Buddhist antiquities are found, but I made practically no discoveries. On the other hand the natives come along daily with their terracotta figures, pots, precious stones with engraved portraits, coins, Buddha images etc. ... and I have acquired a lot of these things cheaply enough. There is an old Tartar, of Orenburg, living here, by the name of Rafikoff, and he speaks Russian fluently. He has paid me several visits, and when I called upon him he presented me with a number of these antiquities." - cit Montell  1936 nr 7., (Datering 100-800 baserad på att en stor del av fynd från Khotan har daterats till denna tid, behöver inte vara korrekt för just detta föremål)., Montell 1936, jfr pl VI:1 samt figur 13, liknande föremål 1903.11.214., Montell, gösta (1936) Sven Hedin’s Archaeological Collections from Khotan: Terra-cottas from Yotkan and Dandan-Uiliq. In: The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Band 7, S. 145–221., Hedinexpeditionen, första centralasiatiska expeditionen (1893-1897), Samlingsbesök. 2022-06-01. Susan Whitfield</pres:content><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="sv">Insamlad</pres:event><pres:nameLabel xml:lang="sv">Hedin, Sven Anders</pres:nameLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="sv">Tillverkad</pres:event><pres:placeLabel xml:lang="sv">Yotkan, Khotan</pres:placeLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="sv">Ursprung</pres:event><pres:placeLabel xml:lang="sv">Asien</pres:placeLabel></pres:context><pres:context><pres:event xml:lang="sv">Funnen</pres:event><pres:placeLabel xml:lang="sv">Kina</pres:placeLabel></pres:context><pres:image><pres:mediaType>image/jpeg</pres:mediaType><pres:src type="thumbnail">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/tn/2135859/image.jpg</pres:src><pres:src type="lowres">https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/zoom/2135858/image.jpg</pres:src><pres:mediaLicense>http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by</pres:mediaLicense><pres:byline xml:lang="sv">Hofer, Adolf</pres:byline><pres:copyright xml:lang="sv">Statens museer för världskultur</pres:copyright></pres:image><pres:references><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/samling/1025818</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/fotografi/2135629</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://libris.kb.se/bib/8259174</pres:reference><pres:reference>https://kulturnav.org/0ad1c6a7-81c9-4e3c-8381-4923074b95ba</pres:reference><pres:reference>http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1001508</pres:reference></pres:references><pres:representations><pres:representation format="HTML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/html/1064182</pres:representation><pres:representation format="XML">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/xml/1064182</pres:representation><pres:representation format="RDF">http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/rdf/1064182</pres:representation></pres:representations><georss:where xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"><gml:Point xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" srsName="SDO:4326"><gml:coordinates cs="," decimal="." ts=" ">79.565,37.17194444444444</gml:coordinates></gml:Point></georss:where></pres:item>