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Seals and Marks on the Old Uyghur Documents

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DOI: 10.25236/ieesasm.2020.135

Author(s)

Alimujiang Yiming

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Alimujiang Yiming

Abstract

Scholars interpreted tamğa and nišan on old Uyghur documents as personal seal and mark. However, it is also common that tamğa or nišan is shared by plural principals of a contract. This article argues that tamğa or nišan is also a symbolic mark of a family.

Keywords

Tamğa, Nišan, Seal, Hua-ya, Uyghur documents