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Title

ear cup

Date

199 BCE to 199 CE

Find site

Dunhuang Limes

Measurement

height 10.5 centimetres, width 3.2 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 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.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1913-16

Find site identifier

DHL.

Stein site number

T.01

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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