Definition of "Sampul"

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, page 155

A remarkably Greek- looking male portrait, from a third- or second- century BC woollen wall-hanging found at Sampul

2002, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia‎, University of California Press, page 37

At the site of Sampul (or Shanpula), near the southwestern Tarim Basin oasis of Luopu, a Saka grave has yielded a piece of woven woolen cloth [Fig. 2] that shows Hellenistic and Persian inspiration in the depictions of a centaur and a lance-bearing warrior (Xinjiang weiwu'er 2001).

2009, Robert A. Jones, “Centaurs on the Silk Road: Recent Discoveries of Hellenistic Textiles in Western China”, in The Silk Road‎, Saratoga, CA: Silk Road Foundation, page 23, column 2

Like nearly all of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cemeteries encircling the Tarim Basin, the complex at Sampul lies on the gravelly tableland or terrace that is located between the desert floor and the foothills of the mountains beyond, the source of the meltwater from the glaciers that sustains life in the oases.

2010, Victor Mair, “The Mummies of East Central Asia”, in Expedition‎, volume 52, number 3, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, archived from the original on November 13, 2015

A source with ties to Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that Sampul township head Ablikim Mettursun and Sampul township United Front Work Department employee Memet’eziz Mettohti had been convicted and sent to prison in Hotan’s Keriye (Yutian) county in 2015.[...]RFA spoke with a Lop county government employee who said they did not have any information on either Mettursun or Mettohti, and referred further questions to higher-level officials, as well as a staffer with the Lop County Justice Department, who also said they did not know anything about the two men.However, when asked whether any cadres from Sampul township had been sent to internment camps, an employee with a legal work unit in Lop county told RFA that “there's no one in the camps, they’re in prison.”When asked who had been sent to prison, the employee responded, “Oh, you know, Memet’eziz Mettohti… he worked for the party in Sampul township.”

2020 January 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Two Uyghur Cadres Jailed Over Failure to Confiscate ‘Illegal Religious Text’”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on January 25, 2020