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vessel
Date
960 to 1279
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Measurement
height 3.1 centimetres, width 4.8 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : Base of a vessel made of dark grey pottery with part of the footring still remaining. On the inside the black glaze stops at the edge of the flat bottom, on the outside about 1,5 cm short of the base. Marks that show that the vessels was wheel-thrown can be seen clearly on the outside.
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.XLIII.l.04
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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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