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0171 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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[Photo] 177 隣接する宿舎と階段を伴ったT. XII.見張り塔跡.敦煌長城にて.RUINED WATCH-TOWER T. XII. A., WITH REMAINS OF ADJOINING QUARTERS AND STAIRS, TUN-HUANG LIMES.

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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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e document neatly written in bold bla
uring about fifteen by nine and a hal
uld not attempt a decipherment, nor
almost the language in which this and
mpanied documents were written. Ba
this Semitic writing turning up on th
and in the material used for it, there w
y my thoughts busy. Were these pe
o Iranian tongue, and were they left be
aders from Sogdiana, or still farther no
for the silk of the distant Seres while th
yers for direct trade from China to the re
n and Oxus? How had they found th
lonely heap of a lonely watch-station for m
ual Lop-nor route?

o less curious was the chronological p
uation in which these papers had been
ourse records on wood, it appeared tig
they must have found their way into the r
imately at the same period. Now a
n, over a dozen in number, the two e
longed, as already stated, to the parti
g the rest there were several which by
used in the designation of a certain m
d clearly to date from the reign of the em

(319-25 A.D.)
this early form of Aramaic script pres
ments would agree well enough with e
ry to account for the material or still
onsidering that the first discovery
is attributed by reliable historical tes
A.D.? An explanation might possible
ights, in the references which M. Chr
ined in early Chinese texts to 'silk pa
a time before the manufacture of rag p
bark was invented. Curiously enoug
perishable fashion what these texts re
libraries as a still earlier writing mat
e buyer had furnished a small strip of
combined with a fragmentary line in E