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Bamboo slip containing a medical prescription.
Date
200 BCE to 400 CE
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Measurement
height 23.2 centimetres, width 0.5 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : Belongs in group with Or.8211/523-534 all the same original size, on bamboo and in same hand. All were found in T.XV.a.ii.
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Stein site number
T.XV.a.ii.40
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Chinese Han-dynasty defensive structures (walls, forts, beacon towers etc) runnning north of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert.
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