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Archaeological site

Title Archaeological site

Pressmark Farhadbegyailaki
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 7/1

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 7/2

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 7/3

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 7/4

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 169/3

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 204/1

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 204/2

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark IOL Khot 204/3

Item type paper fragment
Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Material ink on wood

Pressmark IOL Khot W 6

Item type woodslip
Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Material ink on wood

Pressmark IOL Khot W 7

Item type woodslip
Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Material ink on wood

Pressmark IOL Khot W 8

Item type woodslip
Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Title Khotanese manuscript fragment on wood

Material ink on wood

Pressmark IOL Khot W 9

Item type woodslip
Textile from Central Asia.

Title Textile from Central Asia.

Material silk

Pressmark LOAN:STEIN.287

Item type textile
Ink seal made of the tip of a horn. The design consists of a lotus throne upon which one Svastika and two Tibetan characters have been incised. A hole has been drilled into the object for suspension.

Title Ink seal made of the tip of…

Pressmark MAS.606

Item type seal
Rimsherd of a vessel made of dark grey clay. The outside has been stamped with a pattern consisting of short dashes arranged at various angles to one another.

Title Rimsherd of a vessel made of dark…

Pressmark MAS.625

Item type vessel
A model of the lake of Sukh_vat_, the Paradise of Amitabha, with lotuses set on sticks in two rows on a cotton fabric covered with blue plaster, representing the water. The lotus petals are made of cotton plain weave and painted in red, white or blue etc, and the flowers are 3.0-5.0cm high with diameters of 5.2-6.7cm. Golden powder can be seen in the central part of some lotuses. Leaves made of cotton plain weave are decorated around the flowers.;____________________________________________________3.0-5.0cm____5.2-6.7cm__________________________________ THE ART OF CENTRAL ASIA Fig. 160 & Plate 45

Title A model of the lake of Sukh_vat_,…

Pressmark MAS.629
Oblong wooden block with nine drilled holes, possibly an incense-holder. Eight of the holes are arranged in a circle, the ninth is in the centre. Wedges inside the holes indicate that objects were inserted and kept upright. One side of the block shows clear traces of black paint.

Title Oblong wooden block with nine drilled holes,…

Pressmark MAS.632
MAS.1115

Material glass

Pressmark MAS.1115

Item type clothing
Three-sided prism-shaped bead made of cornelian.;

Title Three-sided prism-shaped bead made of cornelian.;

Pressmark MAS.1115.b
Double drum-shaped bead made of yellow glass.;

Title Double drum-shaped bead made of yellow glass.;

Pressmark MAS.1115.c
Spherical bead made of dark blue glass.;

Title Spherical bead made of dark blue glass.;

Pressmark MAS.1115.d
Cylindrical bead made of green glass.;

Title Cylindrical bead made of green glass.;

Pressmark MAS.1115.e
Bead of irregular shape, made of turquoise.;

Title Bead of irregular shape, made of turquoise.;

Pressmark MAS.1115.f

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Manuscript (inc. blockprint) 597 Artefact 31 Photograph 19 Archaeological site 2 Painting 2 Textile 2
woodslip 572 printing-out paper 19 paper fragment 11 bamboo slip 9 clothing 3 wood tablet 3 pothi 1 seal 1 settlement 1 shrine 1 silk fragment 1 stupa 1 textile 1 vessel 1 wood bracket 1
ink on wood 576 manuscript, ink on paper 12 ink on bamboo 8 glass 2 paste 2 photographic print, b/w 2 silk 2 ink on palm leaf 1
woodslip 5 Buddhism 2 Illustrated 2 Stein, Sir Aurel 1 Textile 1
Dunhuang Limes 54 Farhad-Beg-yailaki 14 Miran 8
British Library 615 British Museum 28 Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2 Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology 2 V&A 1

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Chinese (lang.) 566 Chinese (script) 566 not applicable 25 Tibetan (lang.) 17 Tibetan (script) 17 Brahmi (script) 14 Khotanese (lang.) 12 Sanskrit (lang.) 2 Gandhari Prakrit (lang.) 1 Kharosthi (script) 1
Stein 1906-8 553 Stein 1900-01 64 Stein 1913-16 15 Harding 1923 4 Not known 1
British Library Stein Photos Part II: 392/27 (Falconer) 8 British Library Stein Photos Part I: 392/26 (Falconer) 7 Brief Descriptions of Archaeological Sites (IDP) 2 Stein's Photographs at the LHAS I (Falconer & Russell-Smith) 2 Aurel Stein: A hundred years on (Swift 2014) 1 List of Manuscripts in Languages of Central Asia and Sanskrit (Barnett) 1

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