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A shoe made of hemp with 1/1 weft twining method. The heel and the flat front have worn out already. Weave structures: Warp: hemp, invisible; Twining weft: hemp, Z-2S ply, undyed, 22 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 weft twining method.;____1/1_______________________________________ _____ ________________S__Z_______22_/cm____1/1______
Date
100 BCE to 199 CE
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Measurement
height 10 centimetres, width 4.3 centimetres
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Scope and content : A shoe made of hemp with 1/1 weft twining method. The heel and the flat front have worn out already. Weave structures: Warp: hemp, invisible; Twining weft: hemp, Z-2S ply, undyed, 22 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 weft twining method.;____1/1_______________________________________ _____ ________________S__Z_______22_/cm____1/1______
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DHL.
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T.XVIII.iii.001
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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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