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Inscribed silk strip
Date
84 to 120
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Measurement
height 48.5 centimetres, width 4.3 centimetres
Material
Language / script
Description
Scope and content : One of two silk strips. They was exhibited in the 1914 British Museum exhibition of Stein material ((p.49) in catalogue). One of the strips shows an impression of a seal and the other bears the inscription: 'A roll of gufu silk from the kingdom of Renchang (present-day Jiningzhou, Shandong, China). Width: 2' 2", length 40', weight 25 oz; value, 618 cash.' The catalogue notes that the kingdom was founded in AD 84 and the silk cannot be much later than AD 100.
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XV.a.i.3
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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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