Sogdian Texts: from Manuscript to Classification of the Tales

There remains a lot of works in Sogdian language, which was one of the most important Iranian middle east languages and lingua franca of the Silk Road in the 6th-10th centuries, in three scripts: Sogdian, Manichaean, and Syriac. During the 20thcentury and by the endeavors of European Iranologists these texts were gathered and published and were gradually made available to researchers. There are some tales amongst these published texts that are the focus of this study. These tales are analyzed using Ulrich Marzolph‘s classification of tales. They are sorted by their subject and also similar stories in other sources are found and compared.