邢義田
I-tien Hsing
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
There are different opinions on the composition of the lawsuit files of officer Su-chü en in A.D. 27. This essay attempts to re-examine the make-up of the files on the basis of clarifying the handwriting, and the role of copyists in preparing administrative and legal documents during the time of Han. It also attempts to clarify the meaning of the terminology "t'a-ju-yuan-shu, 它如爰書," which appears in the files of officer Su-chü en, and in many other Han official documents.The result of re-examination shows that the extant files of officer Su-chü en, consisting of 35 wooden slips unearthed at site F22, are far from complete. They are made up of two separate documents instead of one as some scholars have suggested.
Keywords: Han Dynasty, copyist, lawsuit files of officer Su-chuen in A.D. 27