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Auction 153  –  5 - 9 September 2023

TimeLine Auctions, Auction 153

Greek, Roman, Egyptian & Other Antiquities, Natural History & Coins

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Description

Bactrian Manuscript Fragment of a Letter Written to Bunakan
5th-8th century A.D. Recto bearing ten incomplete lines of cursive script on leather; verso blank; accompanied by notes detailing the history and significance of such texts. Sims-Williams, N., Bactrian Documents II: Letters and Buddhist Texts, London, The Nour Foundation, 2007 (Studies in the Khalili Collection, III. Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia: Vol. III: Bactrian), MS jd; and Bactrian Documents III: pl.188a. 1.56 grams, 11.2 cm (4 1/2 in.).

David Lindahl, Sweden, 2001. Collection of Bruce Ferrini, USA. Central London gallery. Property of a UK collector. For UK buyers only, this item is not exportable from the UK. The Bactrian kingdom of southern Transoxiana was only known from a handful of inscriptions, seals and coins until circa 1991, when a cache of around 150 documents was discovered in an archive belonging to the ruler of the city of Rob, dating between the 4th-8th century AD, leading to major developments in the understanding of the Bactrian language. Many of these documents were sold on the art market and collected by Dr. David Naser Khalili for his Nour Foundation. [No Reserve]

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Estimate 500 GBP
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