Mount Mugh, Panjikent (in modern-day Tajikistan), before 722 CE. Unbaked clay with cord of parchment strip. Institute for Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

Jul 20, 2002 · MUGH, MOUNT (Kuh-e moḡ ‘Magus Mount’), site of the 7th-8th-century refuge of the rulers of Panjikant in Sogdiana, where an important archive of documents written in …

Mount Mugh. In a remote mountain area, 150 meters (492 feet) above the confluence of two rivers, the Zerafshan and the Qom, stands the fortress of Mount Mugh, a site both famous and …

MUGH, MOUNT (Kuh-e moḡ ‘Magus Mount’), site of the 7th-8th-century refuge of the rulers of Panjikant in Sogdiana, where an important archive of documents written in Sogdian was …

Jul 15, 2015 · The first part is a translation of Sogdian documents from Mount Mug (kuh-e moḡ), site of the 7th-8th-century refuge of the rulers of Penjikent in Sogdiana, located in the upper …

The only major corpus of Sogdian texts to have been found in Sogdiana itself is the “Mugh Documents”. These texts were discovered by accident in the early 1930s in a ruined fortress …

Mount Mugh Documents This collection of approximately 80 documents represents the most comprehensive corpus of Sogdian texts ever found within Sogdiana. Originating from the …

The following table gives an overview of a selection of Sogdian documents from Mount Mugh, Khotan, Turfan, and Dunhuang. We have grouped the information according to the depository …

The Castle of Mount Mugh was built circa 200 km east of modern-day Samarkand, in the upper Zarafshan valley, in the foothills of Mount Mugh. The castle, which was a fortress built from …

The Mugh collection essentially encompasses the private archives of Dhēwāshtīch, ruler of Panjikant, and his closest associates, who were beleaguered by the Arabs in the castle on …