The Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts (simplified Chinese:
Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts | |
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Part of the Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts | |
Created | c. 217 BC in Qin |
Discovered | December 1975 Xiaogan, Hubei, China |
Present location | Nantong, Jiangsu, China |
Written in the Qin dynasty, the texts record Qin laws and public documents. Their contents have been published in the book 《
While the Shuihudi cache is deemed to be among the most valuable epigraphic sources on the Qin history, the discoveries of the Qin Slips of Liye in 2002 and 2005 are regarded as being of equal, if not bigger, importance.[2]
See also
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edit- ^ http://www.kaogu.cn/uploads/soft/Chinese%20Archaeology/7/Shuihudi's%20Bamboo%20Strips%20of%20Qin%20Dynasty%20and%20Mathematics%20in%20Pre-Qin%20Period.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Robin D. S. Yates (eds.). Birth of an Empire:The State of Qin Revisited, 2013:10.
Bibliography
edit- Hulsewé, A.F.P. Remnants of Ch'in Law: An Annotated Translation of the Ch'in Legal and Administrative Rules of the 3rd Century BC. (Sinica Leidensia, No 17) Leiden: Brill, 1985.