Middle Chorasmian

Azarpay, Guitty. 1969. Nine Inscribed Choresmian Bowls. Artibus Asiae 31(2-3). 185–203.

An art historical study of nine bowls inscribed with Chorasmian formulae indicating their date of manufacture ranging over the 6th-7th centuries CE. The formulae are not deciphered or edited in this study, however.

Henning, Walter B. 1965. The Choresmian Documents. Asia Major 11(3). 166–179.

Discusses features of the Khwarezmian script derived from Aramaic and readings of the documents found in Toprak-kala.

Gudkova, A.V. & Vladimir A. Livshits. 1967. Novÿe khorezmiïskie nadpisi iz nekropolÿa Tok-kala i problema ‘Khorezmiïskoï érÿ’ [New Khwarezmian inscriptions from the Tok-Kala necropolis and the Problem of the Khwarezmian Era]. Vestnik Karakalpakskogo filiala Akademii Nauk Uzbekskoï S.S.R. 1(27). 3–19.

Livshits, Vladimir A. 1968. The Khwarezmian Calendar and the Eras of Ancient Chorasmia. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 16. 433–446. PDF

An overview of pre-Islamic Chorasmian texts and argument about the chronology of the Chorasmian calendar based on the Tok-Kala ossuary inscriptions.

Livšic, Vladimir A. 1984. Dokumenty [Documents]. In Toprak-kala. Dvorec, ed. J.A. Rapoport. 251–286. Moscow.

Livshits, Vladimir A. 2003. Three Silver Bowls from the Isakovka Burial-Ground No. 1 with Khwarezmian and Parthian Inscriptions. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 9(1–2). 147–172.

Livšic, Vladimir A. 2015. Some Khwarezmian Names. Studies on Iran and the Caucasus, ed. U. Bläsing et al. 317–324. Leiden: Brill.

Etymologies of several ancient Chorasmian names attested in the Aramaic documents from Elephantine and on a Central Asian ostracon found during the excavation of the fortress of Kalaly-gyr 2.

Livšic, Vladimir A. 2016. On a Khwarezmian Name. Iran and the Caucasus 20(1). 85–86.

Etymology of one name on a coin legend.

Livšic, Vladimir A. & M. M. Mambetulaev. 1986. Ostrak iz Humbuz-Tepe [An Ostracon from Khumbuz-Tepe]. In Pamjatniki istorii i literatury vostoka. 34–45. Moscow.

Lurje, Pavel. 2013. несколько неизданны хорезмийских надписей из ток-калы [Some Unpublished Chorasmian Inscriptions from Tok-Kala]. Scripta Antiqua Вопросы древней истории, филологии, искусства и материальной культуры (Альманах Том третий К юбилею Эдварда Васильевича Ртвеладзе). Moscow. 728–740.

An edition of five of the Tok-Kala inscriptions, bringing the total published to just over a dozen of the nearly one hundred inscriptions and fragments.

Lurje, Pavel. 2018 Some New Readings of Chorasmian Inscriptions on Silver Vessels and their Relevance to the Chorasmian Era. Ancient Civiliations from Scythia to Siberia (Special Volume: Ancient Chorasmia, Central Asia and the Steppes, ed. Michele Minardi and Askold Ivantchik), 24/1-2. 279–306.

An attempt to read and translate five inscriptions, including those first published in Azarpay 1959. Also includes a valuable first study of the formulae, letter shapes, and some comments on grammar.

Tolstov, Sergei P. & Vladimir A. Livshits. 1962. Decipherment and Interpretation of the Chwarezmian Inscriptions from Tok-Kala. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 12. 231–251. PDF

An overview of the Tok-Kala ossuary inscriptions, including decipherment and photos of only nine of the approximately forty inscriptions.

Two short pieces by F. Altheim & R. Stiehl are essentially responses to this and other works by the Russian archaeologists on Khwarizm, but do not make much of a contribution: Altheim & Stiehl, "Nachtrag 2 zu Nyberg, Aramaistik Heute" In Die Araber in der alten Welt I (1964), 657-660, and id., "Chwārezmische Inschriften," Bibliotheca Orientalis 22 (1965), 140–144.