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Or.8212/81

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Sogdian manuscript fragment with part of the tale of Rustam. There is a line of Chinese on verso.

Date

800 to 899

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 28 centimetres, width 29 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Sogdian (lang.) Chinese (script) Sogdian (script) Chinese (lang.)

Subject

Literary Sponsored

Description

Scope and content : Another fragment (Pelliot sogdien 13) contains the immediately preceeding lines. Published in Reichelt, H. 'Die soghdischen Handschriften des Britischen Museums.' Heldelberg 1928-31. Sims-Williams, Nicholas, 'The Sogdian Fragments of the British Library'. Indo-Iranian Journal 18 (1976): 43-82, Whitfield and Sims-Williams 2004: cat. 3..

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.83.IX./Ch.00349

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang


List of Manuscripts in Languages of Central Asia and Sanskrit (Barnett)

Sims-Williams, NicholasThe Sogdian Fragments of the British LibraryIndo-Iranian Journal1843-821976collections_encatalogue

Sponsors

The digitisation of this manuscript has been generously sponsored by Professor George Huxley.

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