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remains in Sogdian, including a fairly long letter in that early form of Sogdian writing which was first
discovered by me on the Tun-huang Limes. Dr. W. Lentz has instructively treated in Appendix P
an interesting fragment of a Manichaean parchment in later Sogdian script and language.
Examina- Turning to literary remains in languages other than Indo-European, I must record my tribute
tion of
Turkish, of gratitude in the first place to the late Professor Vilhelm Thomsen, the great decipherer of the
Mongol,
Tibetan, Runic Turkish inscriptions, for having honoured this publication with the exhaustive treatment of
and Tangut a text fragment of Manichaean origin in that script (Appendix Q). Professor A. von Le Coq,
MSS.
the distinguished archaeologist and Turcologist, has put me under a special obligation by kindly
contributing an Inventory List of manuscript and block-print remains in Uighur, Mongol, and
Sogdian scripts (Appendix K). Dr. A. H. Francke, a valued collaborator on the Tibetan materials
brought back from my former expeditions, has translated and annotated a Tibetan inscription dis-
covered on the Darkôt Pass (Appendix L). Professor F. W. Thomas, who from the first had
devoted much expert attention to the abundant Tibetan materials recovered on my second journey,
has kindly furnished me with useful indications also as regards those brought back from the third.
Notes of his concerning certain Tibetan MSS. are contained in Appendix R. It had been a
source of encouragement to me when Dr. B. Laufer, the learned Director of the Field Museum,
Chicago, agreed in 1920 to take charge of the very numerous written and block-printed remains from
Khara-khoto in the Tangut or Hsi-hsia tongue, as yet but very imperfectly elucidated, for the
purpose of an inventory. Unfortunately other claims on his time obliged him to renounce this
intention in 1925. To him, however, is due the transcript of the Tibetan characters which in one
manuscript (see Pl. CXXXIV) furnish a phonetic rendering of the Hsi-hsia syllabic signs. These
may yet prove helpful towards the study of the language.
Mr. An- Among those who gave me valuable help with regard to relics of arts and crafts I must mention
drews' help in the first place Mr. F. H. Andrews. The most helpful guidance afforded by the Descriptive
for art
remains. Lists of antiquities in which his was the main share has already been indicated above and is reflected
in many of my chapters. I may, however, single out for special mention the advantages I derived
from his penetrating study of the ancient textiles (Chap. VII, XIX),¹⁵ his expert comments on
drawings and paintings excavated (Chap. XIII, XIX, XXVIII), and his thorough analysis of the
interesting remains of prehistoric painted pottery from Sīstān (Chap. XXX).¹⁶ From Mr. Andrews'
hand is also the Descriptive List, contained in Appendix M, of the antiques, including a number of
interesting painted panels and wood-carvings, which Mr. H. I. Harding, late British Vice-Consul
at Kāshgar, acquired at Khotan and generously presented for the Delhi collection.
Collabora- To Mr. Laurence Binyon is due, besides much other friendly guidance, the expert description
tion on
other of the remnants of a remarkably fine Chinese painting from a tomb of Astāna (Chap. XIX).¹⁷
antiques.
Mr. R. L. Hobson, from his exceptionally wide knowledge of ceramic art in Asia, has supplied
in Appendix D a very helpful synopsis of the varied ceramic products represented in the collection.
Mr. Reginald A. Smith, Deputy Keeper, British Museum, besides supplying me with descriptive
notes on the individual stone implements discovered (Chap. VI, VII, XXX), has in Appendix N
compared their type with that of corresponding discoveries in widely distant parts of Asia. The
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