Ran-lang Collection

The Ran-lang Collection (蘭陽簡, ran-lang-krian) is a cache of bamboo and wooden slips found in Ran-lang Prefecture, in Themiclesia. Preserved in the arid climate, the wooden slips were buried as funerary goods in the grave of a bureaucrat of Dem (滕, dem, Pre-Shinasthana *N-lem) State. The slips have been dated to the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE and represent the earliest sources found in Themiclesia on various subjects, such as law, religion, medicine, attire, and epexegeses of the Menghean classics.