Sims-Williams, Nicholas; Sims-Williams, Ursula (Summer 2014). "Rustam and his zīn-i palang". Iran Nameh. 29 (2): 252–3. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
Sims-Williams, Nicholas; Sims-Williams, Ursula (Summer 2014). "Rustam and his zīn-i palang". Iran Nameh. 29 (2): 250–1. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
"It is possible that the Sogdian aristocratic culture of that time preserved some memory of the glorious days of Khingila, the first Hephthalite conqueror of India. The profile of Rustam, shown on different paintings at Pendzhikent, is very distinct from the other depictions in the Sogdian art, and resembles the Hephthalite prototypes. The portraits feature narrow skulls, V-shaped eyebrows, hooked noses and heavy jaws, and thus closely resemble some portraits of Khingila on the coins(Grenet 2002, 218-219)." Kurbanov, Aydogdy (2014). "THE HEPHTHALITES: ICONOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS"(PDF). Tyragetia: 317–334.
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Sims-Williams, Nicholas; Sims-Williams, Ursula (Summer 2014). "Rustam and his zīn-i palang". Iran Nameh. 29 (2): 252–3. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
Sims-Williams, Nicholas; Sims-Williams, Ursula (Summer 2014). "Rustam and his zīn-i palang". Iran Nameh. 29 (2): 250–1. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
