Decipherment of unpublished Sogdian text

在2006-2007年的最后两年，我调查并破译了俄罗斯科学院特鲁凡福松(柏林)和俄罗斯科学院沃斯托科·韦德尼研究所圣彼得堡分院的未出版的Sogdian文本。对于前者，我从互联网上获得的照片中阅读，而属于后者的照片，我在那里呆了一周，并在现场阅读了文本。幸运的是，在这两年里，我能够抄写属于这两个机构的所有佛教Sogdian和摩尼教Sogdian经文。除了他们，我得到了一个意外的机会来研究在米兰新发现的Sogdian材料，我和中国已经用英语和日语发表了我的结果。2007年8月，当我在吐鲁番逗留时，我发现了一篇Sogdian碑文，到目前为止还没有被认为很糟糕，我一直在读这篇文章，但我的阅读没有被正确地发表。2006年12月，在一位学者的旧档案中重新发现了一小批吐鲁番文献，这位学者认识20世纪初派遣的大谷探险队的一名成员。其中一人发现了大约40个Sogdian碎片，整个收藏品的清单是我与Ryukoku大学的工作人员合作制作的，该大学在过去50年里一直负责管理大谷探险队的收藏品。琉球大学的工作人员请我陪同他们检查现在亚瑟港博物馆收藏的吐鲁番文献；我在其中发现了几个有趣的Sogdian碎片。它们有望在未来几年内得到研究，届时相关博物馆将与琉球大学合作研究它们。

During the last two years of 2006-2007, unpublished Sogdian texts housed at the Trufanforschung (Berlin) and St. Petersburg Branch of the Vostoko Vedenie Institute of Russian Academy of Science were investigated and deciphered by me. For the former, I read from the photographs available through internet, while those belong to the latter institution I spent a week there and read the texts in situ. Fortunately, I was able to transcribe the all the Buddhist Sogdian and Manichaean Sogdian texts belongng to the two institutions during the two years. Apart from them I was given an unexpected opprtunity to study Sogdian materials newly discovered in Milan, China and I have already published my result both in English and Japanese. While I was staying in Turfan August 2007, I discovered a Sogdian inscription which has not so far been recognized as suck I alai read the text but my reading has not been published properly. In December 2006, a small group of Turfan documents was re-discovered among the old file of one scholar who was acquainted with a certain member of the Otani Expedition dispatched in the early 20th century. Among them one finds about forty Sogdian fragments and the list of the entire collection was produced by me in collaboration with the staff of Ryukoku University, which has looked after the collections of the Otani Expedition for the last 50 years. I was asked by the staff of the Ryukoku University to accompany them in examining those Turfan texts now housed in the Museum of Port Arthur; I found several interesting Sogdian fragments among them. They will hopefully be studied during the coming years when the museum in question and Ryukoku University collaborate in studying them.