Ya [0007] Fang Zun

[Sub [0007] square statue]

Sub [0007] square statue, 45.5cm high, 38cm wide, 33.6 caliber × 33.4 cm, weight 21.5 kg
Square and extravagant, with an elephant head on each corner of the shoulder, animal head sandwiched between the heads, and eight ridges on the neck, abdomen and feet. The animal face pattern and Kui pattern are the main decorative patterns, and the thunder pattern is the ground
The inscription on the inner side of the mouth is cast in two lines and nine characters:
sub [0007] (sound controller) and [0008] (sound controller), followed by the
eldest son
The main idea of the inscription is that the Ya ‘0007’ is a treasure for sacrificing the queens and princesses
Zun is a wine container, popular from the early Shang Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period. Fang Zun is less handed down. There are 50 sub-“0007” artifacts handed down from generation to generation, with different types, including Fang Gui, Fang Zun, Fang Lei, Fang Jue, and Si Jiu. The Taipei Palace Museum alone has 15 artifacts. In the 1970s, several bronzes with the inscription “0007” were unearthed in Subutun, Yidu, Shandong Province. From the perspective of the excavated tombs, they are not small in scale. One of them is still a large tomb with four tombs. The numerous artifacts bearing the memory of Ya “0007” indicate that they may represent a large family. From the inscriptions on this instrument, it is not a common tribe that can offer sacrifices to queens and princes. In addition, in the early years, some “Ya 0007” artifacts were also unearthed in Subu Tun, and some scholars speculated that Subu Tun was the burial area of Ya 0007


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