Dingyou

[Dingyou]

Dingyou is 27.5 cm high, 21.3 cm wide and weighs 3 kg
The You is oblate, with a raised top, obvious folding edge and a circular grip. The body has a female mouth, a bulging belly, and a wide margin. The animal heads at both ends of the lifting beam are like sheep, and the face is decorated with cicada patterns. The cover and the body have high leaf edges on all sides. The cover and the belly are decorated with decomposed animal face patterns without ground patterns, and the neck is decorated with Kui dragon patterns with a relatively retrospective tail, separated by embossed animal heads. There are four groups of animal face patterns composed of Kui patterns on the tail
The inscription on the cover and the vessel is in four lines and 17 characters:
The top is the mother Xin Zun
Yi. Ding Gifu’s wife
said “0218”: use “0005”
Yu Naigu Mi
Remember to make a sacrifice for his dead mother Xin. The top reward wife “0218” said, “It is used to offer sacrifices in your mother-in-law’s Mi Temple.”

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