1. (Stephen Allee per Keith Wilson, June 17, 2008) As per Jenny F. So, Jade Project Database, changed Period one from "Shang 商 or Western Zhou 周 dynasty" to "Late Shang 商." Changed Object Name from "Ritual weapon" to "Ceremonial object." Added Dimensions per Christine Lee, from Jade Project Database.
2. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 17, 2008) Ceremonial object added as secondary classification.
3. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, August 17, 2017) Title changed from "Dagger-axe (ge)" to "Dagger axe (ge 戈), fragment reworked"; period two added "Anyang period"; date changed from "ca. 12th-11th century BCE" to "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE"; geography changed from "China" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang"; dimensions changed from "H x W x D: 20.4 x 6.2 x 0.7 cm (8 1/16 x 2 7/16 x 1/4 in)" to "H x W x D: 6.2 x 20.4 x 0.7 cm (2 7/16 x 8 1/16 x 1/4 in)".
4. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, February 5, 2019) Added Chinese translation by Jingmin Zhang; added the following to the description field, "Blade, broad, pointed, ridged; pierced; opaque grayish tan. (Calcified [?], flawed on tang; brown substance on surface.)"; added past label text by Thomas Lawton from the exhibition, In Praise of Ancestors; and title changed from "Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment reworked" to "Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment reworked".
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