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Title

ear cup

Date

199 BCE to 199 CE

Find site

Dunhuang Limes

Measurement

height 11.5 centimetres, width 4.5 centimetres

Language / script

not applicable

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.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1913-16

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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