Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments <sup>1</sup>
A bstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new first‐hand data from the Almosi inscription site and suggest decipherments for a few previously undeciphered characters of the script.
Authors
- Jakob Halfmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3184-4022)
- Bobomullo Bobomulloev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6242-2087)
- Simon Fries (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3865-9914)
- Muhsin Bobomulloev
Institutions
- Tajik National University (TJ)
- Technological University of Tajikistan (TJ)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Tajik Technical University named after academic M.S.Osimi (TJ)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Transactions of the Philological Society
- Published
- 2026-04-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.70032
- Primary Topic
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Fritz Thyssen Stiftung