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LOT 1351
Estimate
GBP (£) 400 - 600
EUR (€) 460 - 690
USD ($) 540 - 800
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BACTRIAN MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT OF A LETTER
6TH-7TH CENTURY AD
6 in. (5.57 grams, 15.5 cm).
6TH-7TH CENTURY AD
6 in. (5.57 grams, 15.5 cm).
A near-complete fragment of a letter in Avestan on leather, recto bearing eight lines of cursive script, faded but largely undamaged; verso bearing traces of at least two lines of text; irregular in shape.
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Bruce Ferrini, USA.
Central London gallery, acquired c.1994.
Property of a UK collector.
For UK buyers only, this item is not exportable from the UK.
PUBLISHED:
Sims-Williams, N., Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan II: Letters and Buddhist Texts (Studies in the Khalili Collections Volume III), London: The Nour Foundation, 2012, pp.24, 106-107, and Bactrian Documents III: pl.169b, 170a.
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