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Letter written in Chinese on a square piece of silk with a circular hole in the middle.
Date
200 BCE to 200 CE
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Measurement
height 9 centimetres, width 9.2 centimetres
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Language / script
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Description
Scope and content : Letter written in Chinese on silk. This and Or.8211/398, 398(bis) were originally were used as the lining of a small grey silk bag, now in British Museum (MAS.773).
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XIII.i.003.a
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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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