É. Apor (ed.): Jubilee Volume of the Oriental Collection, 1951–1976. Papers Presented on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

J. HARMATTA: Sir Aurel Stein and the Date of the Sogdian "Ancient Letters"

79 Sites/Finding Places! 26] Dates] 27] T.VI.b.IV T. VIII. II T.XI.II T.XH.a Т.ХП.а.И Т.ХП1.1 Т.ХП1.Ш T.XIV.I T.XIV.II T. XIV. Ill T. XIV. IV T. XIV. VII T.XIV.a.I T.XV.a.I T. XV. a. II T. XV. а. 1П T.XVI T.XVII T.xvni.i T. XVIII. Ill T.XXII.b T. XXII. с T. XXII. d T. XXII. f T. XXIII. с T. XXIII. 1 T. XXVII T. XXVIII 64 B.C. 8 A.D. 153 A.D. 20-21 A.D. 1 A.D.(?) 56 B.C. 5 A.D. 9 A.D. , 14-19 A.D. ,17 A.D. 48 B.C.(?), 45 B.C. 96 B.C. ,95 B.C. ,94 B.C. , 14 A.D. 4 A.D. 15 A.D. 87 A.D. 67 A. D, 94 A.D. ,137 A.D. , 15 A.D. ,43 A.D. ,46 A.D., 55 A.D. ,56 A.D. 61 B.C. , 53 B.C. 68 A.D. , 77 A.D. 58 B.C. 52 B.C. 52 B.C. 12 A.D. ,35 A.D. 98 B.C. 47 A.D. ,63 A.D. ,64 A.D. , 115 A.D. 13 A.D. ,17 A.D. ,205 A.D. 17 B.C.(?) 92 A.D. 35 A.D. ,50 A.D. ,53 A.D. , 61 A.D. 75 A.D. Table II elucidates the connections between the sites (and finding places) and the dates occurring in the Chinese documents as well as the distribution of the occurring dates among the finding places. Dated Chinese documents came to light at 21 watch-towers, i.e. 68 % of all watch-towers where Chinese documents were found. The 21 watch-towers provided 33 finding places, i.e. 49 % of all finding places where Chinese documents were unearthed. It follows that we have dates for roughly three-quarters of the watch-towers and for the half of the finding places giving Chinese slips. The distribution of the dates among the finding places is again very interesting. At 19 finding places (i.e. 57 % of the total) we have evidence for 1 year, at 6 finding places for two years, at 3 finding places for 3 years,