1. (Jeffrey Smith per Keith Wilson, August 12, 2008) Jewelry and Ornament added as secondary classification.
2. (Daisy Yiyou Wang 王依悠, June 9, 2012) This curved miniature dagger-axe (ge 戈) has beveled edges, and a raised central ridge, and an asymmetrically pointed tip. Its tang has two perforations. The surface is largely altered.
A comparable white jade miniature ge 戈 pendant with two holes in the tang (L: 6.9 cm, W: 2.7 cm) is published in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing (London: British Museum Press, 1995), pp. 195--96, cat. 10: 27. The British Museum ge 戈 pendant was given a Shang 商, ca. 1200--1100 BCE date. Rawson states that the source of the curved shape is not obvious, and it might be possible that the carver reused a small piece of ancient jade with a curve. Similar pendants have been found at both Shang 商 and Western Zhou 周 sites.
Chung-kuo she-hui k'e-hsueh-yuan k'ao-ku yen-chiu-suo Anyang kung-tso-tui [Zhongguo shehui kexuyuan kaogu yanjiusuo Anyang gongzuodui] 中國社會科學院考古研究所安陽工作隊, "1969--1977 nien Yin-hsu hsi-ch'u mu-tsang fa-chueh pao-kao [1969--1977 nian Yinxu xiqu muzang fajue baogao] 1969--1977年殷墟西區墓葬發掘報告," K'ao ku hsueh pao [Kaogu xuebao] 考古學報 1979.1, p. 101, fig. 76: 8.
3. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, 8/21/2017) Title changed from "Ring fragment , reworked to make a pendant in the form of a curved dagger-axe (ge)" to "Dagger axe (ge 戈), probably reworked from a ring or disk (bi 璧)"; period two changed from "early Anyang period" to "Anyang period"; geography changed from "China, Henan province, probably Anyang" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang"; object name changed from "pendant" to "axe"; classification 2 keyword changed from "Jewelry and Ornament" to "Ceremonial Object"; date changed from "ca. 1300 - 1250 BCE" to "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE"; and dimensions changed from "H x W x D (overall): 8 x 3.5 x 0.5 cm (3 1/8 x 1 3/8 x 3/16 in)" to "H x W x D (overall): 3.5 × 8 × 0.5 cm (1 3/8 × 3 1/8 × 3/16 in)".
4. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, February 14, 2019) Title changed from "Dagger axe (ge 戈), probably reworked from a ring or disk (bi 璧)" to "Dagger-axe (ge 戈), probably reworked from a ring or disk (bi 璧)"; and added Chinese translation by Jingmin Zhang. Removed unpublished research by Louisa Fitzgerald Huber from Curatorial Remarksm, and transferred to the Text Entry field.
5. (YinYing Chen per Keith Wilson, February 22, 2023)
Change title from "Dagger-axe (ge 戈), probably reworked from a ring or disk (bi 璧)" to "Dagger axe (ge 戈), probably reworked from a disk".
Change date from "ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE" to "ca. 1250-ca. 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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