Another Sogdian–Chinese bilingual epitaph*

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1474-0699|80|2|305-318

ISSN: 0041-977x

Source: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol.80, Iss.2, 2017-06, pp. : 305-318

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Abstract

Two stone tablets in the Wangye Museum, Shenzhen, contain a bilingual Sogdian and Chinese epitaph for a Sogdian merchant and his wife, who lived in the northern Chinese city of Ye 鄴 in the late sixth century ce. The two texts are published here for the first time and accompanied by a detailed commentary on philological and historical points of interest.