Sogdian: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, A-9
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A-9
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Sogdian (Sogdian script)
Letter

Physical Description

leather
Recto: landscape, 15 lines, Verso: portrait, 26 lines. The last two lines in Verso: are written in the opposite direction, by a different hand
19.5
11.0

Content

This is a letter sent to Dhēwashtīch without any formula, one or two weeks before he was captured by the Arabs.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: Early August 722 (0722-08)
  • None: None

People

Publications

  • Livshits, Vladimir A. 2015. Sogdian Epigraphy of Central Asia and Semireche’e. tr. Tom Stableford, ed. Nicholas Sims-Williams. London. (Pages: 74-82)

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

948
10/01/2025

Citations

Nicholas Sims-Williams
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Contact

invisible_east@ames.ox.ac.uk (Please include the above permalink when contacting the editorial team about this Text)
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