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IICAS carried out
inventory activities on Sogdian scriptures found in the territory of Central
Asia as the first step for implementation of the regional strategy on
multinational nomination of the documentary heritage to the international
register of the UNESCO”s “Memory of the World” Programme. “Catalogue of Sogdian
Writings in Central Asia” covers more than 90 artefacts of documentary heritage
found during archaeological excavations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The inventory card covers following
features: (1) archaeological context (where and under what circumstances the
artifact was discovered); (2) physical description of the monument; (3) current
storage (where and under what conditions the find is stored); (4)
transliteration of a fragment of the Sogdian script; (5) translation of a
fragment of the Sogdian script; (6) comments on a fragment of the Sogdian
script; (7) bibliography and (8) illustrations. IICAS invited scholars from following
academic institutions and universities for joint collaboration in inventory
studies: Samarkand State University, State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg,
Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, Beruni Institute of Oriental
Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Institute of History of
Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
of Sciences and Humanity. The project was implemented under the 2022 ACC-MOWCAP
Small Grants Programme.
An electronic version of the book is available at the following
link: https://www.unesco-iicas.org/book/154
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