Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts
| Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts | |
|---|---|
 Part of the Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts | |
| Created | c. 217 BC in Qin |
| Discovered | December 1975 Xiaogan, Hubei, China |
| Present location | Nantong, Jiangsu, China |
The Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts (
early Chinese texts written on bamboo slips, and are also sometimes called the Yúnmèng Qin bamboo texts. They were excavated in December 1975 from Tomb #11 at Shuìhǔdì (睡虎地) in Yunmeng County, Hubei, China. The tomb belonged to a Qin administrator c. 217 BCE.[1]
Written in the
Warring States
to the Qin period.
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
- Gao Heng (legal scholar)
- Guodian Chu Slips
- Shuanggudui
- Yinqueshan Han Slips
- Zhangjiashan Han bamboo texts
References
- ^ 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
- 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.