The 7th century Sogdian paintings of the so-called “Hall of the Ambassadors” at Afrasyab have been interesting student of Central Asian art and archaeology since their discovery happened in 1965. In the last 40 years, the publication of several specific studies[1] allowed to find a solution commonly accepted by most of the scholars[2] to the general meaning of the scenes represented in the Afrasyab mural paintings. Such solution is mostly based on the observation of the same paintings and on literary texts external to proper Sogdiana since the inscriptions found at Afrasyab[3] were not enough to give a detailed meaning to the whole paintings in the “Hall of the Ambassadors”.
The Western and the Southern Walls are in fact interpreted now as correlated to the local cele