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10th century, East Syriac lectionary (Luke 16), found at Bulayïq
Bulayïq (
traditional Chinese : 葡萄溝 ;
simplified Chinese : 葡萄沟 ;
pinyin : Pútáogōu ) is a locality and archaeological site in central
Xinjiang province in
western China . It is located 10km north of
Turpan city in the foothills of the
Tien-shan Mountains .
[1] It is also known as
Bīlayuq.
[2]
The site in the Tapin basin is arid. The remains there include a
Tell with
mud brick ruins protruding from the
desert sands. The ruins were excavated by a
German team in 1905, led by
Albert von Le Coq .
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[5]
Among the ruins was found a monastic library, where a trove of ancient
manuscripts in various
Iranian languages were found.
[6] The texts show the influence of
Orthodox and
Nestorian Churches. Almost all known
Christian religious texts in the ancient
Sogdian language are from the Bīlayuq library.
[7]
The texts show the development and spread of
Christianity in Central Asia .
[8]
See also
References
^ Nicholas Sims-Williams,
BULAYÏQ , Encyclopedea Iranica.
^ P. Zieme, Türk dili araştırma yıllığı belleten ; 1978-79, Ankara, 1981, p. 90
^ Le Coq, Albert von Auf Hellas Spuren in Ost-Turkestan. Berichte und Abenteuer der II. und III. deutschen Expeditionen ,
Leipzig , 1926, p. 88
^ JRAS, 1909, pp. 319 and 321
^ Adrien Pitea,
St. Isaac of Nineveh’s Gnostic Chapters in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayïq 2020.
^ Erica C. D. Hunter,
Syriac Sogdian and Old Uyghur manuscripts from Bulayiq .
^ Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (Oxford
University Press, 2015)
page 1021 .
^ Nicola Di Cosmo; Michael Maas, Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 (Cambridge University Press, 26 Apr. 2018 )
p 211-213
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