Toprak-kala fortress (Earth city)

“The hall of kings”, where 23 clay statues of Khorezm rulers stayed along brightly painted walls, each of statue was bigger than natural size in two times. Unfortunately, these sculptures are preserved only in fragments. Among the fragments of torsos, arms, legs, heads, there are no faces, evidently, some of conquerors destroyed them intentionally. Facts that these statues represented the kings exactly, evidenced by the findings of two sculptures crowns, known as images on the coins. Each ruler depicted seated, was surrounded by standing figures of women - queens and princesses, men – princes, close noblemen and children. A real "portrait gallery"! However, only two badly damaged heads - woman ("wife of the king Vazamara") and youth-prince, have survived now. Despite the damage, it is noticeable that the sculptor tried to show us personality traits of person. 

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