Sogdian Daēnās

Sogdian Daēnās, also known as Sogdian Deities (French: Deux divinités féminines; Chinese: 粟特神祇白畫) is a line drawing discovered by the French Orientalist Paul Pelliot at the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, dated to the 10th-century Guiyi period. It is probably associated with the Zoroastrian cult of the Sogdian people. The historian Zhang Guangda, a member of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, recognised this "paper image" as one of the "pieces of paper depicting Mazdean deities for the saixian celebration". This piece is part of the Pelliot chinois collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.