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Fragment of an ear cup made a of lacquered wood. Part of the wall of the originally elliptical vessel remains. The inside is painted using red, the outside using black lacquer. The vessel seems seems not to have been decorated.
Date
100 BCE to 199 CE
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Measurement
height 11.1 centimetres, width 4 centimetres
Description
Scope and content : Fragment of an ear cup made a of lacquered wood. Part of the wall of the originally elliptical vessel remains. The inside is painted using red, the outside using black lacquer. The vessel seems seems not to have been decorated.
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XV.a.ii.001
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Chinese Han-dynasty defensive structures (walls, forts, beacon towers etc) runnning north of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert.
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