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Writing and Printing

Issyk inscription

Issyk inscription
Issyk inscription

The Issyk inscription is a yet undeciphered text, possibly in the Kushan script, found in 1969 on a silver bowl in Issyk kurgan in Kazakhstan, dated to the 4th century BC. The context of the burial gifts indicates that it may belong to Saka tribes.

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