Six bamboo slips with Qin dynasty writing.

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Title

Six bamboo slips with Qin dynasty writing.

Date

Replica produced ca. 1990 for the Hubei Provincial Museum.

Subject

Gift of Xia Wei and Soren Edgren.

Description

Bamboo served as a principal substrate in East Asia before the invention of paper. In 1975, six bamboo slips were excavated at Yunmeng, Hubei. The fragment, bearing writing from the Qin dynasty, has been dated to the 3rd century BCE. It was part of a larger cache of 1,100 bamboo tablets consisting of legal and historical materials. This replica of the fragment was produced during the 1990s by the Hubei Provincial Museum.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School