Collection object "Or.8212/100" • Sogdian Ancient Letter 5 from Fri-khwataw in…

Title

Sogdian Ancient Letter 5 from Fri-khwataw in Guzang to 'the chief merchant Aspandhat' concerning news from China

Date

313 to 314

Find site

Dunhuang Limes

Measurement

height 10.2 centimetres, width 24.4 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Sogdian (lang.)

Description

Scope and content : Or.8212/94(A), Or.8212/94(B) and Or.8212/94(C), Or.8212/100 all belong to the same letter, together with fragments Or.8212/101(5) , Or.8212/10(7), and Or.8212/101(9), (10), (11). Or.8212/94 was originally restored as one sheet (see Serindia plate CLVI), but was divided and renamed A and B when Or.8212/100 was subsequently inserted in the middle. Or.8212/94(C) is the string which was originally tied around the letter (see Serindia, plate CLIII) pub: Reichelt ii p31, plate V; Serindia II: 776, plates CLVI and CLIII.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHL.

Stein site number

T.XII.a.ii.6

Find site description

Chinese Han-dynasty defensive structures (walls, forts, beacon towers etc) runnning north of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert.

The Sogdian Letters 1, 2, 3, 5 (Sims-Williams)

Or.8212/100