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Writing exercise in Chinese, with the date 'zhi jian guo tian' corresponding to AD 14-19.
Date
14 to 19
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Measurement
height 23 centimetres, width 2.3 centimetres
Material
Language / script
Description
Scope and content : this is written in the standard script from the third century BC which is still being used in China. But the style of handwriting in this period is distinctive, with downward diagonal strokes that are thicker at the bottom right. It is clearly shown on this woodslip which contains a writing exercise. The words being practised include 大 (big), 人 (man) and 天 (heaven). A date, corresponding to AD 14-19, is given in the four characters near the bottom.
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XIV.i.8
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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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