[3] It is rumoured to have been excavated in Taiyuan in the 1980s, before being sold on the American art market.

He probably held the official Chinese title "Sàbǎo" (薩保, "Protector, Guardian", derived from the Sogdian word s’rtp’w, "caravan leader"), used for government-appointed leaders of the Sogdian immigrant-merchant community.

[1][6] Numerous Turkic men appear in the reliefs of the Miho funerary couch.

[3] The Hephthalites are essentially absent from the Tomb of An Jia, but appear in four panels of the Miho funerary couch with somewhat caricatural features and characteristics of vassals to the Turks.

[7] The Hephthalites probably had been replaced by Turkic hegemony by that time (they were destroyed by the alliance of the Sasanians and the Turks between 556 and 560 CE).