The Terminology for Carpets in Ancient Central Asia

From: Sino-Platonic Papers
No 257  May 2105

The Terminology for Carpets in Ancient Central Asia

byZHANG He

William Paterson University

This study seeks to gather and clarify the terminology for carpets used by peoples of Central Asia from about 300 BCE to 1000 CE time, including terms in Kharoṣṭhi, Khotanese, Sanskrit and its relatives, plus Persian, Sogdian, Chinese, and Turkic.