Archivo: Bronze head from Sanxingdui

Description: Bronze head from the thirteenth or twelfth century BCE, excavated in 1986 from Sanxingdui Pit 1 near Chengdu in Sichuan province, China. Height 27 cm, greatest width 22.8 cm, width at top of head 15 cm, weight 7.66 kg. Kept at the Sanxingdui Museum. The description is from Jay Xu (2001), "Bronze at Sanxingdui," in Robert Bagley (ed.), Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), p. 85.
Title: Bronze head from Sanxingdui
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Author: Nishanshaman
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