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Bamboo slip containing a medical prescription.
Date
200 BCE to 100 CE
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Measurement
height 23.2 centimetres, width 0.5 centimetres
Material
Language / script
Description
Scope and content : Belongs in group with Or.8211/523-534 all the same original size, on bamboo and in same hand. All were found in T.XV.a.ii. except this and one other which are marked as from T.XV.a.iii. However, this might be a transcription error as there is no item 27 from T.XV.a.ii. and two item 27 from T.XV.a.iii.
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XV.a.ii.27 (T.XV.a.iii.27)
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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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