Names
Mainz 400 (TI α) recto.
Location
Found in the course of the archeological excavations during the First German Turfan expedition (Erste Preußische Turfanexpedition 409) in East Turkestan.
It is stored in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften).
Specification
Fragment of the Chinese book page. The fragment is sealed at the top (1,6 cm).
Manuscript: front page is in Old Turkic, the back page is in Chinese.
Paper: thick, fragile, brown color (written with ink).
Quantity of lines: 6 lines in front.
Designations: there are stickers Mainz 400 and T I-a on the right top corner.
Size
Distance between lines: 1.8 cm.
a: 12 cm (height) x 9.2 cm (width).
Researches
Sertkaya 424 conducted researches.