Details
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Erdal V (Turki No. 1 continued)
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Physical Description
The photograph shows clear horizontal fold lines, and the end of the final 5 lines have been eroded.
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11 Horizontal fold lines are visible.
Content
The photograph of a sheet whose upper edge is partly visible. The traditional way of folding such documents is best seen here: it was rolled and pressed flat; then the ends of this flattened cylinder were folded over to meet. By the way the folding lines run into the upper edge, it can be seen that the top was once longer but was torn away. The text is in the upper half of the sheet we have; the bottom half is blank. The writing is rather similar to that of text [Erdal] III. The witnesses' statements, of which the fragment consists, are arranged in a shorter and in a longer column. According to Cl., ' Turki No. 1' is 'a text in Arabic script of which no photograph is available'. Concerning the use of Arabic writing, we get the following gradation: in the dated texts treated above, I and IV belonging to A.H. 473-83, neither scribe nor witnesses wrote in Arabic; in the text presented here, the scribe used Arabic, but the witnesses did not; in Huart's texts 2 and 3 (A.H. 505-8), a few of the witnesses still signed in Uighur (while in his text from 489 no Uighur signatures are found); in A.H. 515 (Arabic No. 5) there were still two witnesses who signed in Uighur. Text V is intermediate between these two groups, and if a mapping over the years is possible, may have been written in the eighties or nineties of the fifth century A.H.
Dates
- The Gregorian calendar: None
People
- Sulaymān
- ʿUthmān b. Nūrī
- Ḥasan b. Isma'īl (Master Ḥasan the scribe, son of Isma'īl)
- Abū Bakr
- ʿUthman b. Qara Sar
- ʿAlī b. İsḥaq
- Yūsuf
- Ḥasan
- Kächmish
- Muḥammad "the Blond One" (Master Muḥammad the Blond One)
- Abū Bakr (Abū Bakr, the younger brother of Kürläg Muḥammad)
- Yūsuf
- Baba Na'il
Publications
- Erdal, Marcel. "The Turkish Yarkand Documents." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 47/2, 1984. pp. 260-310 (Pages: 286-291)
The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication
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IEDC Data
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08/07/2024
08/08/2024
Citations
Ofir Haim
The transcription and translation have been taken from a previous publication (see Publications)
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