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ear cup
Date
199 BCE to 199 CE
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Measurement
height 11.5 centimetres, width 4.5 centimetres
Language / script
Description
Scope and content : Fragment of an ear cup made a of lacquered wood. Part of the wall and one of the originally two handles of the elliptical vessel remain. The inside is painted using red lacquer, the outside seems to have had a red background with broad black lines. The remainder of a pattern consisting of red concentric circles can still be seen on these, the circles seem to have been applied using a stamp or a stencil. The object is very worn and some of the lacquered surfaces has flaked off or disintegrated.
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Find site identifier
DHL.
Stein site number
T.XLIII.k.026
Find site description
Chinese Han-dynasty defensive structures (walls, forts, beacon towers etc) runnning north of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert.
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