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0446 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 446 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000234
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Scarcely less ingenious is the method of fastening which the
finds of N. xv. prove to have been used for the oblong tablets.
From a number of double tablets of that shape which I recovered
here practically intact, it became clear that the under-tablet was in
this case provided with a raised rim on either of the shorter sides.
Between these rims fitted exactly a covering tablet, the obverse of
which, in its raised centre, had a square or oblong socket for the
reception of a clay seal. Here too a string passed transversely