東トルキスタン出土のオッスアリ (ゾロアスター教徒の納骨器) について
1997 年 40 巻 1 号 p. 73-89
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1997 年 40 巻 1 号 p. 73-89
The purpose of this article is to show that four receptacles unearthed in Chinese Turkestan (Turfan, Karashahr and Jimsa) are ossuaries. Ossuaries are particular bone-receptacles of Zoroastrians, in which human bones were kept after they had been cleansed of flesh; they have hitherto been discovered almost exclusively in Khwarazm, Merv, Sogdiana and Semirechye. On the basis of L. V. Pavchinskaja's recent study, this article attempts to identify the four receptacles found in Chinese Turkestan as Sogdian ossuaries and to date them to the second half of the seventh and the first half of the eighth centuries. These ossuaries prove that Sogdians kept their funeral rites even after their settlements in Chinese Turkestan and confirm the accounts in ancient Chinese chronicles that Zoroastrianism was popular in Chinese Turkestan.
