Period:Unknown
Materials:slate
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 50 millimetres Weight: 12.29 grammes
Description:
Stone (slate) coin-shaped funerary object. (whole)
IMG
![图片[1]-coin; funerary equipment BM-1974-0909.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Miscellaneous objects/mid_00431598_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-coin; funerary equipment BM-1974-0909.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Miscellaneous objects/mid_01124213_001.jpg)
Comments:– Imitation coin or stone coin for the dead.– A cutting from a sales catalogue (unidentified, dated 2.4.28, in the Dept of Asia, BM) reads “Other Properties. 168: A pair of pottery Food Jars, circular, with tapering sides, each having two small Shitzu bosses on the shoulders; the bases carved with the character Chin (Dynasty 265-316 A.D.), 6 in. high; together with a quantity of slate Imitation Cash for the use of the departed spirits, from a grave in Shansi province. …. 2”
Materials:slate
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 50 millimetres Weight: 12.29 grammes
Description:
Stone (slate) coin-shaped funerary object. (whole)
IMG
Comments:– Imitation coin or stone coin for the dead.– A cutting from a sales catalogue (unidentified, dated 2.4.28, in the Dept of Asia, BM) reads “Other Properties. 168: A pair of pottery Food Jars, circular, with tapering sides, each having two small Shitzu bosses on the shoulders; the bases carved with the character Chin (Dynasty 265-316 A.D.), 6 in. high; together with a quantity of slate Imitation Cash for the use of the departed spirits, from a grave in Shansi province. …. 2”
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