IOM RAS - Publications

Most popular

Main menu

News

History

Chunakova O. Middle Iranian Manichaean Manuscripts. Interpretation and Identification // Written Monuments of the Orient, 2(8) 2018. P. 39—50.

Chunakova, Olga Mikhailovna

The present paper provides an interpretation of the Parthian fragment SI 5576 belonging to the Serindian Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences. The poorly preserved text is a hymn dedicated to Wisdom and, perhaps, is an adaptation of a Mandaean text. Its contents suggest that it was performed during the Bema, the main Manichaean holiday. The fragment’s paper, ink, handwriting, and the Chinese text on the recto side show that it is part of the same manuscript as the fragment M 4590 belonging to the Berlin Turfan Collection, and that the manuscript seems to have been a list of hymns to be performed during the Bema holiday.

[ To the contents of the issue... ]

PDF-files

The entire paper

Keywords

Manichaean literature
Manichaeism
Parthian language
Turfan texts

Random news: Announcements

The IOM RAS Academic Council will meet at 14:00 on Monday, November 18, 2024. S. A. Frantsouzoff, Chief Researcher, Doctor of Sciences in History, will give a talk titled “Anti-Calvinist treatises by heads of Eastern Christian Churches kept in the manuscript department of the Russian National Library (1671‒1673)”.
Read more...

Programming© N.Shchupak; Design© M.Romanov

beacon typebeacon type