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The '''Sampul tapestry''' is an ancient woolen wall-hanging found at the [[Tarim Basin]] settlement of [[Sampul]] in [[Lop County]], [[Hotan Prefecture]], [[Xinjiang]], China,<ref>Wood 2002, p. 37, p. 255</ref> close to ancient city of [[Khotan]].<ref>Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), ''Sino-Platonic Papers'', No. 230, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, p. 15, ISSN 2157-9687.</ref> The object has many [[Hellenistic period]] features, including a [[Greek mythology|Greek]] [[centaur]] and [[diadem]], linking it to the [[Greco-Bactrian Kingdom]] (formed after the conquest of the [[Achaemenid Empire]] by [[Alexander the Great]] of [[Macedon]] and establishment of the [[Seleucid Empire]]). It may represent a [[Yuezhi]] soldier, in red jacket and trousers, from the 1st century CE.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yatsenko |first1=Sergey A. |title=Yuezhi on Bactrian Embroidery from Textiles Found at Noyon uul, Mongolia |journal=The Silk Road |date=2012 |volume=10 |pages=45–46|url=http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol10/SilkRoad_10_2012_yatsenko.pdf}}</ref> The soldier (king) is also pereahps a Hellenized Saka or a Greco-Saka military aristocrat.<ref>Lucas, Christopoulos; Dionysian rituals and the Golden Zeus of China pp.63-118 </ref>