SOGDIAN INSCRIPTION

SOGDIAN INSCRIPTION

Sogdian inscriptions from the collection of the Samarkand State Museum Reserve. 

Acknowledgement of debt from Settlement of Afrasiab. Inv. number - A-456-1. Document on a wooden stick. Willow branch cut in diameter. It is 16 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. In-scribed in black ink.

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Sogdian inscriptions from the collection of the Samarkand State Museum Reserve. 

Letter of Afshun to Karte. Inventory No. – КП-6000/8 Settlement of Afrasiab. Year of discovery—1933. Refound in 1998 during the inventory of the Afrasiab Museum.

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Sogdian inscriptions from the collection of the Samarkand State Museum Reserve. 

The Sogdian inscription on the robe of the Chaganian salt. The settlement of Afrasiab. Inventory No. – КP-6251/1.  Wall painting. Uzbekistan, Samarkand region, settlement Afrasiab, Year of discovery—1965. Object 23, room 1, Western wall, 27th figure. A vertical inscription containing 16 short lines inscribed on the western wall on the flap of the white coat of one of the figures of ambassadors who arrived from Chaganian.

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Sogdian inscriptions from the collection of the Samarkand State Museum Reserve. Inventory No. – КP-6251/ 3. 

Sogdian Inscriptions on depictions of geese. Wall painting from the Hall of Ambassadors, Afrasiab settlement, Southern wall of Afrasiab. Above the horse are four white birds with blue eyes and long necks curving like those of swans. 

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Sogdian inscriptions from the collection of the Samarkand State Museum Reserve. Inventory No. – КP-6251/ 3. 

Inscription on the image of the lady wall painting from Ambassadors’ hall. Settlement Afrasiab, The settlement of Afrasiab, date of discovery 1965. Sector 23, room 1. Southern wall, detail 5. Figure-6. Detail 3. Southern wall of Afrasiab. Figure 6. The first lady is sitting on slender black and gray horse with short trimmed mane and with a high raised small muzzle, with blue eyes. 

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Sogdian inscriptions from the collection of the Samarkand State Museum Reserve. Inv No. BS-2.

Inscription on silver bowl from Chilek. Samarkand region. Payaryk region. Chelek. Found while dig-ging a well in the summer of 1961 a. Certificate of 1961, the village of Chilek, Samarkand region, ac-quired from H. Ametov.

Samarkand Museum-Reserve, Numismatics and Special Storage Fund, Inv No. BS-2.

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