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Les procédés de déchiffrement de l’écriture archaïque sur os et écailles de tortue (Chine antique, XIIIe-XIe siècle av. J.-C.)
| Title in English | Decipherment Methods of Archaic Writing on Bones and Tortoise Shells (Ancient China, 13th-11th centuries BC) |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The paper focuses on the identification and comprehension of this script with the ultimate objective of deciphering it. Graphical deciphering is tested in order to define and systematize it in a specific philological and cultural background. The main thrust of the paper is the search for a fundamental methodology of the deciphering process of oracle bone inscriptions in the framework of the advancement of this process in the course of the 20th century until now. |