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Dunhuang: Wooden Plank of Futu
CHINA, Gansu, Dunhuang; Eastern Han dynasty (25–220), circa 51–107; Clerical script; Pinewood; 24.8 x 1.6 cm; Gansu Slips Protection Research Center, Lanzhou, China
Excavated in 1991 from the Xuanquanzhi site in Duhuang, research suggests that this plank was written between the years 51 and 107, during the Eastern Han dynasty. The wooden slip is 24.8 cm long, 1.6 cm wide, and 0.4 cm thick. It is generally intact, other than a missing lower right quarter. The characters Futu" (stupa) appear as the name of a district on this wooden slip. This use of Buddhist nomenclature as municipal place names is also recorded in the Biographies of Eminent Monks |
