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Dr. Hoernle —Antiquities from Central Asia. [Extra No. 1, 
the bottom apparently an Arabic counter-signature. As shown by the 
transverse marks of fracture in the paper, the document may have been 
originally folded up in eight narrow folds, about f " wide. Purport, 
unknown. 
No. 2. Document. 
Belongs to M. 10. Size, 7f x 4J". Irregular fragment; complete 
at bottom. Inscribed, only on one side, with eight mutilated lines of small 
writing, followed by a 9th line in Arabic characters. Purport unknown. 
No. 3. Document. 
Belongs to M. 10. Size, about 6" square. Fragment, being the 
right-hand lower corner of sheet. Inscribed, on one side only, with 
six mutilated lines of large writing. Purport, unknown. 
No. 4. Document. 
Belongs to M. 10. Size, 7^x3£". Yery irregular fragment, from 
middle of sheet. Inscribed, on one side only, with 8 mutilated lines of 
large writing. Purport, unknown. 
No. 5. Document. (Plate Y, fig. 3). 
Belongs to M. 10. Size, 5 x 2|". Fragment; left-hand lower 
comer of sheet. Inscribed, only on one side, with nine mutilated lines 
of large and small writing; also with a cross (-f) and a crossed 
circle (©), being the marks of two illiterate witnesses. Purport, 
probably a record of some sale. 
Nos. 6-12. Documents. 
Belong to M. 10. Yery small and very irregular fragments, from 
middle of several sheets, inscribed with remains of large (Plate Y, 
fig. 4), and small writing, some of them, possibly, being portions of the 
previously described numbers. 
No. 13. Document. 
Belongs to M. 10. Size, 7 x 3". Fragment, complete on left, but 
irregularly tom on the other sides. Inscribed, on both sides, with eleven 
or twelve mutilated lines of small writing, running in opposite directions 
on the two sides. Purport, unknown. 
Nos. 14-24. Documents. 
Belong to M. 10. Minute fragments of very irregular shape. 
Inscribed on both sides with traces of small writing. All of them, 
perhaps, portions of No. 13. 
Second Set. Brahmi Documents. (Plates YI and YII). 
This Set comprises 69 specimens. Among them there are thirteen, 
sheets, which are entire or nearly so, and of which one belongs to M. 3, 
