国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

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P. PELLIOT : Les documents chinois trouvés par la mission Kozlow à Khara-Khoto (Journal

Asiatique, I914, I, p. 503 sq.).

P. PELLIOT : Les monuments de l'écriture tangoute (Translation of Ivanov : Zur Kenntnis

der Si-hia Sprache; Journal Asiatique, 192o, I, p. 107).

P. PELLIOT : A propos des Comans (Journal Asiatique, 192o, p. 146-147).

P. PELLIOT : Review of N. A. Nevsky. A brief manual, etc. (T'oung Pao, vol. XXIV, 1926,

nrs. 4 and S , p. 399-403.)

P. PELLIOT : Review of Nevsky. Ocerk istoriï tangutovedeniya (T'oung Pao, vol. XXIX,

1932, p. 226-229).

W. ScxoTT : Kitai und Karakitai (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissen-

schaften, Berlin 1879, p. I-20).

R. STUBE : Die Schriftdenkmäler der Hsi-Hsia (Archiv für Schriftkunde, Leipzig, 1918,

P. 1-55).

TAI HSI-CHANG la, ?: : Si-hia ki   (« Statements concerning the Tanguts »),

Peking, 1924.

WANG TSING-JU   W flu : Si-hia yen kiu êq   Of   (« Si-hia studies »; Academia Sinica.
The National Research Institute of History and Philology monographs, series A,

nos. 8 and 9. Peiping 1932-1933).

A. WYLIE : On ancient Buddhist Inscription at Ken-yung Kwan, in North China (Journal

of the Royal Asiatic Society, new series, vol. V, 1870, p. 14-44; 4 plates).

E. VON ZACH : Ueber einen störenden Fehler in den bisherigen Hsi-hsia Studien (Orient. Literatur Zeitung, vol. XXX, 1927, p. 4 sq.).

As we have just read, the writing of the Si-bias was first used in 1037. It must therefore have been invented but shortly before that date. As for objects from the Chinese frontier which bear Si-Ma inscriptions, we are able to reach an exact date when the piece and the characters engraved upon it are of the same period.

3) Groups chronologically arranged.

One may be permitted to borrow names in use in the Celestial Empire with which to designate objects from the north of China, since the intercrossing and hybridism between China and the . Euriasiatic Steppes brings this frontier art particularly close to the far eastern centre. When we use Chinese epochs we are able to form five principal groups :

1. The Han period (beginning of our era). We shall place here all that according to our actual knowledge agrees with the Scythians of the Black Sea (VII-IV centuries B.C.). Then all that is derived from their immediate successors, the Sarmatians (IV century B.C.-II century A.D.). Finally all that descends from the Kara-Suk civilization of Minussinsk.

2. Period of the Six Dynasties (more simply called, about the year Soo A.D.) The uncertainty of this group demands a certain leeway before and after this date. Objects connected with the Kurgan civilization are part of this group, also objects derived from Siberian gold plaques.

3. T'ang period (second half of I millennium). The number of objects to