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Disk (<em>bi</em> 璧)
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; bored from both sides, leaving median ridge; mottled bright shades of yellow and orange brown; profuse silvery area of incipient disintegration; strata running in thin layers, most noticeable on the rim where some have chipped off from erosion and decomposition. (Many rough and chipped areas on rim and surface.)
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDisk (<em>bi</em> 璧). ca. 3300-2250 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
