A new Kharohī wooden tablet from China

Publisher： Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN： 1474-0699|53|2|283-291

ISSN： 0041-977x

Source： Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.53, Iss.2, 1990-06, pp. : 283-291

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Abstract

Many Kharohī documents have been unearthed from the buried cities in the shifting sands of the Taklamakan Desert in the last thirty years. I went to the south of the Desert and conducted an archaeological survey along the Silk Road in the summer of 1986. A Kharohī wooden tablet happened to be on display in the Khotan Museum when I visited there, but no serial number had been given to the new document. It was allegedly collected by Mr. Li Xuehua, an officer of the Min Feng county, when he explored the way to the Niya site for the shooting of a television programme on the Silk Road in 1981. However, he did not leave any further information on the exact place where the tablet was found in the vast area of Niya.

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