Arakawa Sh. On the Design of a “Trebuchet” in the Tangut Manuscript of IOM, RAS // Written Monuments of the Orient, 2. Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2015. P. 21-30.
The paper focuses on a unique Tangut manuscript (Tang. 46 inv. No. 156(2006),
old inv. No. 5217) kept in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of
Sciences. In previous studies, it has been taken to be a constructional diagram of musical
instrument. The writer concludes that the manuscript is the design for a pao 砲 (stone
launcher, trebuchet, sling).
At the IOM RAS, the exhibition Editions of 'The Knight in the Tiger Skin' and Rystaveli's literature from the IOM RAS Collection, dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Shota Rustaveli, is to be held from September 20 to October 3, 2016.
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