1928,1022.27
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ear cup
Date
199 BCE to 199 CE
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Measurement
height 10.5 centimetres, width 3.2 centimetres
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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 and is decorated with two parallel running black lines that are divided by a reoccurring pattern of five lines. The outside has a black background on which patterns have been painted with red lacquer. These consist of parallel running lines that sometimes form broader bands which are filled with concentric circles each with a dot in the middle. The object is very weathered and a lot of the lacquered surface has flaked off or disintegrated.
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DHL.
Stein site number
T.01
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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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