Detail View: Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images:
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ID_Number:
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WBD_08063
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Creator name:
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unknown
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Title:
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Five Disks with Greek Scripts
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View description:
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full view
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Date:
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ca. 200 CE
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Date type:
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creation date
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Date notes:
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Han dynasty (206 BCE–CE 220) or Central–West Asia, 2nd century CE
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Repository name:
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Lingtai County Museum
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Repository_inventory_ number:
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SL.1.2017.18.1a–e
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Style_Period:
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Western Han
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Subject:
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Silk Road
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Subject:
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inscriptions
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Subject:
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legends (folk tales)
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Culture:
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Chinese
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Culture:
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Central Asian
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Category:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Work_type:
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disks (object genres)
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Material_Technique:
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lead
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Measurement:
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Each: Diam. 5.5 cm
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Note:
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Lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lingtai County Museum: "Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 200)," April 3–July 16, 2017.
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