Wooden Inscriptions and the Culture of Writing in Sabi Paekche.
Surviving inscriptions from the Korean kingdom of Paekche百濟(ca. C.E. 250-660) are extremely few in number. Recent archaeological discoveries have uncovered an unprecedented cache of Paekche writing in the form of wooden tablets, known as mokkan 木簡, dateable to the period when the kingdom's capital w...
| Publicado en: | Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archeology for Asia & the Pacific Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 47 - 74 |
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University of Hawai'i
2019
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