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| Inscription ID | IN00102 |
| Title | Schoyen Copper Scroll Inscription |
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| Parent Object | OB00093 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Mehama |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 485 |
| Max | 500 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 68 kārtika śukla 7 (era: uncertain). Basis of dating: approximate reign of Toramāṇa, conjecture. Melzer 2006: 263-264 argues for a date in the Laukika era, equivalent to 492/493 CE; Bakker 2015: 4-5 prefers the Kaniṣka era, which gives 495/496 CE. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | |
| Description | northern class; Sander's "alphabet k" of the 5th century |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 25 |
| Height | 57 |
| Description | The two fragments bear 16 and 28 lines of text, some incomplete. Campus size is an estimate based on the estimated original height of the whole scroll. The engraving is careful, but its quality deteriorates at the end as if the concentration of the artisan had dropped. The scroll has not been cleaned, and patina obscures some characters that may be possible to decipher after cleaning. |
| Decoration | The text includes some ornamental symbols, see the edition. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported and edited in Melzer 2006. Text and translation reprinted with photo in Braarvig Liland 2010: 92-96. Discussed in Vaissiere 2012 and Bakker 2015. |
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