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Associated place

Asia › China (place of creation)

Date

3000 - 2000 BC
Neolithic Period (China) (c. 10,000 - c. 2000 BC)
Erlitou Period (c. 1900 - c. 1500 BC)

Material and technique

jade

Dimensions

29.6 x 5.9 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)

Material index

inorganic › stone › gemstone,

inorganic › mineral,

inorganic › mineral › gemstone

Technique index

formed

Object type index

production/replication,

component

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

Accession no.

EA1956.1647
Further reading

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 114 on p. 42, p. 42

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