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'Book of Omens' in Old Turkic in Runic script, with Chinese text
Date
930
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Measurement
height 13.1 centimetres, width 8.1 centimetres
Material
Language / script
Kok Turkic (script) Chinese (lang.) Old Turkic (lang.) Chinese (script)
Subject
Description
Scope and content : Transcribed and translated by Vilhlem Thomsen in JRAS 44.1 (1912): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00042763. Originally the sheets were glued together at the back, one by one - without any stitching. There was no sign of an original outer binding.
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DHMG.
Stein site number
Ch.0033/Ch.10.VI.20
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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