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A new Kharoṣṭhī wooden tablet from China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Lin Meicun
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Many Kharoṣṭhī 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 Kharoṣṭhī 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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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 283 - 291
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1990

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