Translation and analytical survey of Sogdian ancient letters (The fourth document)

Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature

saeed nazari ¹ (department of literature of sanandaj)

Received: 2023-09-22 Accepted : 2024-02-27 Published : 2024-02-20

Keywords: Middle Iranian Language, Old Iranian language, Sogd, Sogdian ancient letters, the fourth document,

Abstract :

Translation and analytical survey of sogdian ancient letters (The fourth document)Abstract:Sogd was the ancient name of place near Badaxšān valley. The central of this city was Samargand. In Sasanian era, sogdian people were known for activities business especially with China and India. And also was considered as one of the Iranian main economic center. There is a large number works have remained in these people. Historically ,one of the most important works are sogdian ancient letters. these letters discovered in 1907 by the Biritish archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein in a Chinese watch Tower in Gansu province . These letters are five nearly complete letters and four incomplete.the author of letters provide extremely important information about the early of the sogdian diaspora a long the silk road , and also refers to the chaos and difficult conditions in China .Key words : sogd , sogdian ancient letters , the fourth document