Sampul

Proper noun

Sampul

1. A township in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula).2000, J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155
   • A remarkably Greek- looking male portrait, from a third- or second- century BC woollen wall-hanging found at Sampul2002, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, University of California Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37

   Synonyms:

   Shanpulu