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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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Large perforated disk of the type pi [bi] 璧; bored from both sides, leaving heavy median ridge; mottled olive greens with traces of red and golden brown, profuse greenish-white clouding of incipient disintegration; both surfaces are satin smooth, one has a large and two small saw marks. (Rim rough and broken in three areas.)
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.
