2001.59.6.87.1 (Film negative)
2001.59.6.87.1 (Film negative)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1936-50
Tsangpo Valley Region > Nyapso
2001.59.6.87.1
55 X 57 mm
Negative film nitrate
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh E. Richardson
Manual Catalogues - Notes on front of negative album - '6' 'JOMOLHARI; [illegible]; TSURPHU; NAPSO DORING'; Notes on back of negative album: 'JOMOLHARI; CHARSADDA; PESHAWAR; ABBOTABAD [?sic]; KULU; TSURPHU SCROLL & MSS.; GARDEN'; Notes on spine: 'JOMOLHARI; NWFP; TSURPHU SCROLL' [KC 9/9/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index '6' - Folio. 87. 'Nyapso pillar'. [KC 9/9/2006]
Other Information - Background: Richardson briefly mentions the pillars at Nyabzo in A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions , James G.Forlong Series, no. XXXIX, Royal Asiatic Society, 1985, p. 156, "Another group showing signs of some antiquity ... consists of two roughly dressed short pillars of stone at either end of a mani wall on the north bank of the Gtsang-po not far from the ko-sa (ferry) of Nyabzo. Each pillar is inscribed on all four sides but the texts are badly damaged and although disjointed words and phreases can be read, it is not possible to make continuous sense of the inscriptions. ... No one in the neighbourhood of Lhasa knew anything about the pillars. They may ante-date the mani wall because one face of each pillar is virtually obscured by being placed close up against the end of the wall." [KC 9/9/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"A Nyapso inscription pillar"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.6.87.1.html>.
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