SarapiÞ (shirt) from the Pazryk Burial Mounds, ca. 5th century B.C.

Pictured in The Frozen Tombs: The Culture and Art of the Ancient Tribes of Siberia, D.M. Wilson, British Museum Publications Ltd, 1978

Length 108 cm, width at hem 130 cm, width at shoulders 93 cm, width of material 44.5 cm

Shirt is made of kendyr (hemp) fibers, Originally the shirt was white but it has faded to grey. The shirt has 4 gussets or gores sewn in below the hem at the sides. The main seams of the shirt, the cuffs and the collar wer bound with red-woolen braid and cord.

Geographically, this is an area from which Iranians migrated from. There are many characteristics of the clothing construction that were carried through Persian clothing up through modern times. For example, we can see the origins of the characteristic "rectangle" construction with side gores of 16th century Persian garments in the shirt.

Note the similarity in construction to a 16th century shirt: