Sogdian Inscription, Upper Document مقاله

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Sogdian Inscriptions Upper سند Dr. Farah Zahedi (Refer to the page image) The Sogdian language is one of the Eastern Middle Iranian languages, and a more or less complete knowledge of it has been obtained through writings engraved on vessels and coins minted in Bukhara and Samarkand, as well as through documents found in the land of Sogdia and among commercial migrant settlements along the Silk Road, especially in Chinese Turkestan and Northern Mongolia. Following the archaeological discoveries in 1952 in the Ladakh1 region near the borders of Tibet and the frontiers of Kashmir, where several short inscriptions remained from a Christian Sogdian from Samarkand, or perhaps from a Sogdian residing in China but of Samarkand origin, were obtained, no other written work of this language was found. In 1987, the completion of the Karakorum Highway2, which connects Pakistan to China through the Indus and Gilgit3 valleys and the rivers located in the Hunza4 region, opened a new era for historical discoveries in a remote land, where the Nanga Parbat5 mountains and -------------- (1). In 1997, German Professor Karl Jettmar, along with Professor Dani3 from Pakistan, found hundreds of inscriptions and epigraphs on both sides of the Indus Valley, especially near the village of Shatial4 (a few kilometers above the Sazin5 River) and the city of Gilas6. Other compound proper names exist in the Indus Valley inscriptions that denote a specific and particular god or deity.