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Mirror Featuring Deities and Kings in Three Sections Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles
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Inscription: I made this bright mirror By refining the three metals. With my fine skill, I engraved [the design].
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMirror Featuring Deities and Kings in Three Sections Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles (半圓方枚環繞式三段神人鏡), 175–225 CE. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). Bronze; diameter: 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.); overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.328
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