1. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, July 1, 2008) Jewelry added as secondary classification.
2. (Susan Kitsoulis per Keith Wilson, June 24, 2010) Object name changed from "Pendant: dragon" to "Jewelry." Title changed from "Pendant (pei 珮): dragon" to "Pendant (pei 珮) in the form of a dragon."
3. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, May 3, 2018) Title changed from "Pendant (pei) in the form of a dragon" to "Pendant in the form of a dragon"; period one changed from "Shang dynasty" to "Late Shang dynasty"; period two added "Anyang period"; date changed from "ca. 13th-11th century BCE" to "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE"; geography changed from "China" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang"; object name changed from "jewelry" to "pendant"; added Chinese object caption by Jingmin Zhang; added the following to the description, "This bottle-horned kui 夔 dragon seems to have been worked in the full round, but one side has suffered too much loss of stone through burial damage to let one be certain of the previous presence of design elements. Large suspension hole through the middle. (Generally cracked/creviced with soil/cinnabar accretions; reverse is mostly degraded.)"; and added past label text by Thomas Lawton.
4. (YinYing Chen per Keith Wilson, February 15, 2023)
Change date from "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE" to "ca. 1250-1050 BCE."
Change date from "公元前1300-1050年" to "公元前1250-1050年" in the translation field.
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