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Bamboo slip with medical prescription
Date
200 BCE to 200 CE
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Measurement
height 23.3 centimetres, width 0.7 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : Belongs in group with Or.8211/523-534 all the same original size, on bamboo and in same hand. Most are marked as being found in T.XV.a.ii. - although this bamboo slip is only inscribed with T. as a site id. There is a piece of textile stuck onto the verso.
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DHL.
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(T.XV.a.ii?)
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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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