1. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, August 21, 2017) Title changed from "Dagger-axe (ge)" to "Dagger axe (ge 戈), fragment"; geography changed from "China" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang"; date changed from "H x W x D (overall): 19.7 x 6 x 1.1 cm (7 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 7/16 in)" to "H x W x D (overall): 6 × 19.7 × 1.1 cm (2 3/8 × 7 3/4 × 7/16 in)".
2. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, February 14, 2019) Changed the title from "Dagger axe (ge 戈), fragment" to "Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment"; and transferred Unpublished Research from Curatorial Remarks field to the Textry Entries field.
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