Abstract
Collating and interpretation are the two most basic primary tasks in the study of excavated documents. In this article, I draw on the bamboo documents unearthed at Guodian to discuss problems involved in the collating and interpretation of excavated documents. The article is divided into three sections: First, general examples related to the collating of the Guodian documents; second, examples illustrating problems specific to the Guodian documents; and third, problems related to the interpretation of individual characters in the Guodian documents. Because the fields of “collating” and “interpretation” are quite broad, I focus on several points, limiting the discussion to a few representative examples. It is hoped that in this way I can illustrate the problems specific to documents written on bamboo strips, while at the same time providing examples of ways in which problems in excavated documents can be approached.
Keywords
collating of ancient documents, interpretation of ancient documents, bamboo strips from Guodian, Chu documents from Guodian, excavated documents
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