カイイムトゥ文書のこと

Abstract

In W. Radloff's Uigrishe Sprachdekmaler, Materialien nach dem Tode des Verfassers mit Erganzungen von S. Malov herausgegeben (Leningrad, 1928) there are seven MSS. concerning a personage whose name Radloff and Malov read Qiyimtu, Q(a)yimtu, or Qarimtu (Table I). From an inspection of the originals it is evident that the name should be read Qayimtu. Furthermore in the unpublished MSS. in East Berlin, at the Deutshe Akademie der Wissenschaft's Zentralinstitut fur Alte Geschichte und Archaologie, Bereich Alter Orient, the author has found nine more MSS. concerning the same Qayimtu (Table II). This article is devoted to demonstrating that these sixteen MSS. are all concerned with the same individual. It is also suggested that, as three loan contracts among the documents imply, the Qayimtu of the MSS. was a thirteenth or fourteenth century landlord in the Turfan region of Eastern Turkestan. The author intends to publish more detailed studies of the sixteen documents concerning Qayimtu in the near future.