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A triangular 'woodslip' giving the first ten terms of the sixty year cycle. It is written in seal script.
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Measurement
height 34 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : 1st century BC to 2nd century AD The form of Chinese characters - the 'spelling' - was standardised in the third century BC and the same standard has been used to the present day (although with different styles of handwriting). However, the form deriving from that used on the oracle bones continued to be used alongside the standard script, most especially for seals. It is here shown on part of this calendar inscribed on a prism-shaped piece of wood.
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Date
undated
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XIX.i.1.
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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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