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Place Dunhuang, Shazhou, Gansu, China, Asia

1. Add Or 5222

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5222
Title:
Avalokiteśvara surrounded by attendants and donors. Artist(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
A retangular banner made of hemp cloth with three suspension loops sewn to the top edge. The painting on the banner depicts Avalokiteśvara in the centre surrounded by four attendants. In the lower register are represented a male and female donor. The donors are attended by figures holding a fly-...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
900-1000
Extent:
1 item

2. Add Or 5223

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5223
Title:
A bodhisattva. Artist(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
A banner made of hemp cloth. The painting on the banner depicts a bodhisattva facing to his right. He is performing anjali-mudra with his hands. This banner has been digitally photographed, and can be viewed on the International Dunhuang Project's website. http://idp.bl.uk
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
900-1000
Extent:
1 item

3. Add Or 5224

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5224
Title:
A bodhisattva. Artist(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
A banner made of hemp cloth. The painting on the banner depicts a bodhisattva facing to his left. He is performing anjali-mudra with his hands. This banner has been digitally photographed, and can be viewed on the International Dunhuang Project's website. http://idp.bl.uk
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
900-1000
Extent:
1 item

4. Add Or 5225

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5225
Title:
A bodhisattva. Artist(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
A banner made of hemp cloth. The painting on the banner depicts a bodhisattva facing forward. The figure has his left hand raised and his right hand by his side. This banner has been digitally photographed, and can be viewed on the International Dunhuang Project's website. http://idp.bl.uk
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
900-1000
Extent:
1 item

5. Or 12201

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12201
Title:
[Text fragment]
Scope & Content:
A fragment of coarse Chinese paper, used as a wrapping for Chinese and Uighur manuscript fragments from Dunhuang. It contains ten lines of (non-mediaeval) text in Turkic with various orthographic idiosyncrasies recording financial transactions, and is signed by ‘Āsim (sic) Ākhūn and Mollā Sulṭān...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 text, 1 f

6. Or 13085 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13085 A
Title:
Fragmentary Turkic Text
Scope & Content:
Left-hand end of a page of pothi type, with five lines of text : (1) ...]lar kü [...] ertmiş (2) [çxş]ptnin küçi 'the strength of correct behaviour' (3) ]miş yalanguklar 'men' (human beings) (4) könüllügler balık 'having ... minds ... the city' (5) ]tı. Çxşpt küçi (see line 2)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Uighur
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

1 fragment

7. Or 13085 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13085 B
Title:
Fragmentary Turkic Texts
Scope & Content:
Manuscript, or possibly blockprinted. There are in a good standard hand and are likely from a different blockprint or manuscript as OR 13085 A. One fragment is illegible; likely Buddhist texts. (A) 1. ]mak ; 2. ]mundag "thus" (B) 1. ]bu "thus" ; ]utul (unfinished word) ; 3. ].amtı (?) "now" ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Uighur
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
6 fragments

8. Or 13085 C

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13085 C
Title:
Fragmentary Turkic Text
Scope & Content:
Three Buddhist Uighur fragments; and one fragment in Manichean script, possibly in a Turkic or Iranic dialect. (A) 1. - ; 2. - ; 3. ]tükellig[ "complete" ; 4. ] bérmiş üküş [ "gave"... "money" ; 5. zdı kü (B) 1. törlüg "kind of" ; 2. atğanayın "I shall be impeded" ; 3. bolup "becoming" (C) d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Uighur
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
4 fragments

9. Photo 392/26(266)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392/26(266)
Title:
First digging at T. III from north-east [Dunhuang.] Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography PUBLISHED: 'Ruins of Desert Cathay', vol. 1, pl. 153: 'Ruin of ancient watch-tower T. III., near western end of Tun-Huang Limes. The spot where the first discovery of an early Chinese record on wood was made is marked by the two men in the foreground.' 'Serindia...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
08 Mar 1907
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 392/26(267)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392/26(267)
Title:
Lake camp near T. X. [Dunhuang.] Photographer: Stein, Marc Aurel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = archaeological expeditions; archaeology; camps; exploration; Stein Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
09 Mar 1907
Extent:
1 item