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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 ridges; obverse: mottled, lustrous shades from cream to dark mahogany brown; reverse has a paint like surface of warm tan with a cloudy dark brown area; both surfaces speckled with dark strata marks. (Rim has old and recent chipped areas and one probable mend.)
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.
