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silk fragment

Or.8211/398

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Letter written in Chinese on silk. Or.8211/398(bis) is probably part of same letter.

Date

200 BCE to 200 CE

Find site

Dunhuang Limes

Measurement

height 11.9 centimetres, width 5.9 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

letter

Description

Scope and content : Letter written in Chinese on silk. Or.8211/398(bis) is probably part of same letter. These two and another piece of inscribed silk (Or.8212/398(A) were originally were used as the lining of a small grey silk bag, now in British Museum (MAS.773).

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHL.

Stein site number

T.XIII.i.003.a

Find site description

Chinese Han-dynasty defensive structures (walls, forts, beacon towers etc) runnning north of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert.

Chavannes, E.L'instruction d'un futur empereur de Chine en l'an 1193Mémoires concernant l'Asie Orientale116-641913astronomy
Chavannes, E.L'instruction d'un futur empereur de Chine en l'an 1193Mémoires concernant l'Asie Orientale116-641913astronomy

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