COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_08063
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Five Disks with Greek Scripts
View description:
full view
Date:
ca. 200 CE
Date type:
creation date
Date notes:
Han dynasty (206 BCE–CE 220) or Central–West Asia, 2nd century CE
Repository name:
Lingtai County Museum
Repository_inventory_ number:
SL.1.2017.18.1a–e
Style_Period:
Western Han
Subject:
Silk Road
Subject:
inscriptions
Subject:
legends (folk tales)
Culture:
Chinese
Culture:
Central Asian
Category:
Sculpture and Installations
Work_type:
disks (object genres)
Material_Technique:
lead
Measurement:
Each: Diam. 5.5 cm
Note:
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.
