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left of it. At Niya site Sir Aurel Stein found a wooden building and also pieces of furniture with quite similar decoration

6 (Fig. 9) and among his small finds there is also a bronze girdle-pendant with the same exact design (Fig. 10). But we know the same design on many girdle-pendants from Hunno-Avarien graves opened in Hungary too (Fig. 11—12). The age of the Niya finds cannot be in doubt. They correspond to the Chinese late Han period, i. e., at lateet the 3rd century. But how can the similar design on a figure of evidently much later work be explained? Is it the outcome of a surviving popular fashion among neighbouring western peoples, or some fortunate find of the antiques of an archaistically disposed age? NOTES 1 Photo of the whole figure in Tibor Horváth's „The Art of Asia in the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest". Corvina, Bp. PI. 13. 2 Repr. in colours and in design by F. Andreivs in Sir Aurel Stein's Innermost Asia. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928. Vol. III. Pl. XXXIV. L. C. 07a and XXXVIII. 3 Repr. in colours and in design by S. Umehara, Studies of Noin-TJla Finds in North Mongolia. The Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, 1960. Ol. XIV, XV. 4 Similar finds publ. in Sir Aurel Stein's Serindia. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1921. Vol. IV. Pl. XXXVI (Lou Lan etc.), Pl. LIII. Watch Stations of Tun-huang lines. 5 Z. Felvinczi Takáts: A Preliminary Report of a Far Eastern Journev. Far East, 1937. II. No 1-4. Bp. 6 Sir Aurel Stein: Serindia. Pl. XIX. N. XXXVII-II-004.