The Yingpan man () is an ancient mummy which was excavated in the Yingpan cemetery located in the northeastern
Tarim Basin
The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Northwest China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.Chen, Yaning, et al. "Regional climate change and its effects on river runoff in the Tarim Basin, China." Hydr ...
. The mummy was 1.98m (6 feet 6 inches) tall, and dates to the 4th-5th centuries CE.
The deceased was wearing luxurious clothes decorated with Hellenistic motifs.
The Yingpan man may have been a
Sogdian or more probably an elite member of the
Shanshan
Shanshan (; ug, پىچان, Pichan, Piqan) was a kingdom located at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert near the great, but now mostly dry, salt lake known as Lop Nur.
The kingdom was originally an independent city-state, known in t ...
Kingdom nearby.
The mummy is located in the
Xinjiang Museum.
Gallery
File:Map of the Tarim Mummies (Tarim detail).png, General area of the Tarim mummies
The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BC to the first centuries BC, with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BC.School of Li ...
() with main burial sites, including Yingpan.
File:Red,20191110,by_Pu_Feng.jpg, Hellenistic motifs on the dress of the Yingpan man
File:Detail of the caftan of the Yingpan man.jpg, Hellenistic motifs on the dress of the Yingpan man
References
Sources
* {{cite journal , last1=Wang , first1=Tingting , last2=Fuller , first2=Benjamin T. , last3=Jiang , first3=Hongen , last4=Li , first4=Wenying , last5=Wei , first5=Dong , last6=Hu , first6=Yaowu , title=Revealing lost secrets about Yingpan Man and the Silk Road , journal=Scientific Reports , date=13 January 2022 , volume=12 , issue=1 , pages=669 , doi=10.1038/s41598-021-04383-5 , url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-04383-5 , language=en , issn=2045-2322, pmc=8758759
Sogdians