Period:Unknown Production date:3300BC-2200BC
Materials:jade
Technique:pierced (?)
Dimensions:Length: 9.60 centimetres Width: 1.40 centimetres
Description:
Square-shaped stylus in creamy jade with pale green flecks with a rounded projection at one end and tapering to a point at the other.
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![图片[1]-stylus BM-2022-3034.67-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Jades/636_.jpg)
Comments:This belongs to the general category of awl-shaped ornaments or pendants. Most, but not all, are pierced. This piece demonstrates one variety of the many forms taken by such ornaments: its gently curved sides are combined with an angular, square cross-section, whereas other examples of a similar weight and length are round in cross-section. It is possible that the antecedents of these pendants are bone tools or ornaments known from the much earlier site of Hemudu also in Zhejiang. Archaeological reports suggest that some awl-shaped ornaments were employed with the decorated plaques, and that th e ornaments belong in pairs. However, as only one of a pair is ever illustrated, we cannot be sure that this is the case. Other awl-shaped ornaments were plainly used by themselves and some of the smaller ones may even have been sgtrung with beads to form necklaces. Yet others, it is thought, were mounted so that their tips pointed upwards. While some have been found near the head of the tomb occupant, others have been placed near the legs or in the hands, or hung from the waist. Awl shaped ornaments have also been found outside the Liangzhu culture at Dawenkou sies, including Dawenkou itself and it is possible they are the distant ancestors of handle shaped jades employed fro the Erliout period onwards in Henan and Shaanxi. See Rawson 1995, p.142, cat.no.5.6.
Materials:jade
Technique:pierced (?)
Dimensions:Length: 9.60 centimetres Width: 1.40 centimetres
Description:
Square-shaped stylus in creamy jade with pale green flecks with a rounded projection at one end and tapering to a point at the other.
IMG
Comments:This belongs to the general category of awl-shaped ornaments or pendants. Most, but not all, are pierced. This piece demonstrates one variety of the many forms taken by such ornaments: its gently curved sides are combined with an angular, square cross-section, whereas other examples of a similar weight and length are round in cross-section. It is possible that the antecedents of these pendants are bone tools or ornaments known from the much earlier site of Hemudu also in Zhejiang. Archaeological reports suggest that some awl-shaped ornaments were employed with the decorated plaques, and that th e ornaments belong in pairs. However, as only one of a pair is ever illustrated, we cannot be sure that this is the case. Other awl-shaped ornaments were plainly used by themselves and some of the smaller ones may even have been sgtrung with beads to form necklaces. Yet others, it is thought, were mounted so that their tips pointed upwards. While some have been found near the head of the tomb occupant, others have been placed near the legs or in the hands, or hung from the waist. Awl shaped ornaments have also been found outside the Liangzhu culture at Dawenkou sies, including Dawenkou itself and it is possible they are the distant ancestors of handle shaped jades employed fro the Erliout period onwards in Henan and Shaanxi. See Rawson 1995, p.142, cat.no.5.6.
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