Jades for Life and Death

Credit Line: The Dr. Paul Singer Collection of Chinese Art of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; a joint gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Paul Singer, the AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, and the Children of Arthur M. Sackler

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新石器時代晚期三星堆文化（公元前2000--1000年）
中國四川
蛇紋石質玉
直徑32.5、厚0.5釐米
史密森博物學院亞瑟 M. 賽克勒美術館保羅·辛格中國藝術收藏品；亞瑟 M. 賽克勒基金會，保羅·辛格，AMS基金會，及亞瑟 M. 賽克勒子女聯合贈送
器物編號：S2012.9.164

Unpublished Research: Draft catalogue entry (no. 37) for S2012.9.164 for the catalogue of the Singer collection (1970--1990); by Jenny F. So

Disk
Neolithic period--Shang 商 dynasty, 3d--2d millennium BCE
Serpentine
Diameter 32.2 cm (12 5/8 in.)
The thin disk is cut from a dark amber and gray serpentine that has almost completely altered to chalky white. Its thinness is evident as the disk appears semitranslucent in light. The undecorated surface is smoothly ground, and the hole is drilled from one side only.

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Disk (bi 璧)