1. Swallow-shaped jade pendant
(Matching tags: jade,Shang dynasty)

Carved from sapphire and white jade, this artifact shows some cinnabar permeation spots. The artifact is carved as a flying swallow; its eyes protrude a little. On the front side of the artifact there ...

2. Pipe-shaped yellow jade trinket
(Matching tags: Shang dynasty,jade)

This Zong is shaped like a tube; its form resembles a Chuan, or bracelet, but is taller. It originates from the shape of chimney and derives from the ancient sacrifice to Jung Liou, or the house. Later, ...

3. Zu-xin Jue
(Matching tags: wine,vessel,Shang dynasty,bronze)

The zuxin wine pitcher is a artefact of the late Shang Dynasty, unearthed in Luoyang, Henan. The shape of its mouth is very peculiar. There is a long channel at the front called liu, a conduit for letting ...

4. Ding for offering sacrifices
(Matching tags: Zhou dynasty,Shang dynasty,tripod,bronze,Spring and Autumn Period)

The tripod is the most important bronze ritual implement in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It was used in the higher level ritual ceremonies and banquets, and was a cooking implement. This “Lao tripod” ...

5. Zhi(觶)
(Matching tags: Shang dynasty,bronze,vessel,Chou dynasty)

The chih was a bronze drinking vessel of the Shang and Chou dynasties.This example has the classic Shang tao-tie (a mythical creature)decorative pattern in relief on the belly of the vessel....  ...

6. Hu with hunting motive pattern filled-in lacquer
(Matching tags: jug,Shang dynasty)

After this type of jug appeared in the middle of Shang Dynasty, it served as the primary implement for wine until the Qin-Han period. Many highly creative designs that reflected human activity, such as ...

7. Ding with Tao-tie pattern
(Matching tags: bronze,Shang dynasty,tripod)

The bronze tripod developed from the pottery tripod of the Neolithic Age. This tripod with the Taotie design is an implement from the late Shang Dynasty. The mouth of the implement opens outward, the edge ...

8. Ya-ch'ou Square Kuei
(Matching tags: bronze,Shang dynasty)

Many bronzes cast by the Ya-chou clan have been unearthed around Su-pu-tun Village in I-tu, Shantung province, and scholars believe that they were the Pao-ku family found in the ancient text, ...

9. Tortoise plastron with divination inscription (Part3 147, R044327)
(Matching tags: Wu Ding,oracle bone,divination,turtle shell,Shang dynasty)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th excavation in 1936, it is an oracle bone belonging to the first period of the age of Wu Ding. It has been somewhat damaged. The divination inscription ...

10. nscribed bovine talus (anklebone) (Part2 8688, R044854)
(Matching tags: oracle bone,Shang dynasty,divination)

... The contents record the Shang kings sacrificial offering to Da Yi.  ...

11. Tortoise plastron with oracular inscription (Part2 6664, Part3 207, R044358)
(Matching tags: turtle shell,oracle bone,divination,Wu Ding,Shang dynasty)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th excavation in 1936, it is an oracle bone belonging to the first period of the time of Wu Ding. Only the upper half part of this tortoise plastron ...

12. Tortoise shell with oracular inscription (Part2 5241, R044772)
(Matching tags: turtle shell,Shang dynasty,divination,oracle bone)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th excavation in 1936, this is an oracle bone dug out from pit YH127, belonging to the first period. This is a unique shell in terms of its modified ...

13. Tortoise shell with vermillion text (Part3 65, 66, R041291)
(Matching tags: divination,oracle bone,Shang dynasty,turtle shell,Wu Ding)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th excavation, it is an oracle bone belonging to the first period of the age of Wu Ding. Most tortoise shells used for divination were cut from the ...

14. Colored-in divination tortoise plastron (Part3 1, R043986)
(Matching tags: Wu Ding,turtle shell,Shang dynasty,divination,oracle bone)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th excavation, it is one of the oracle bones excavated from the well-known pit YH127. It belongs to a late period of the age of Wu Ding. ...

15. Tortoise plastron with vermillion text (Part2 6422, 6423, R044802)
(Matching tags: turtle shell,oracle bone,divination,Wu Ding,Shang dynasty)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th Xiaotun excavation in 1936, it belongs to period 1, the age of Wu Ding. Upon the shell can clearly be seen the number preceding each divination ...

16. Tortoise plastron with oracular inscription (Part2 867, R044852)
(Matching tags: Shang dynasty,divination,oracle bone,Wu Ding,turtle shell)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 13th Xiaotun excavation in 1936, it belongs to late Shang period 1, a divination inscription of Wu Ding. The layout of this tortoise plastron is completely ...

17. Large tortoise plastron with oracular inscription (Part1 3914, R041003)
(Matching tags: Shang dynasty,turtle shell,oracle bone,divination)

One of the seven tortoise plastrons obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 9th excavation of the Yin ruins in 1934, this oracular inscription belongs to the third or fourth period. Altogether ...

18. Engraved deer skull (Part1 3940, R041038)
(Matching tags: oracle bone script,Shang dynasty,deer skull)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 4th Xiaotun excavation in 1931, and consisting of ten-odd oracle bone characters, it is a late Shang period 5 inscription: a graven record of affairs ...

19. Engraved deer skull (Part1 3941, R041039)
(Matching tags: oracle bone script,deer skull,Shang dynasty)

A deer skull obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys 3rd excavation of the Yin ruins in 1929. About ten oracle bone characters comprise the inscription, which is from late Shang period five: ...

20. Animal bone with oracular inscription (Part1 2902, 2903, R035140)
(Matching tags: Shang dynasty,divination,oracle bone)

Obtained in the Institute of History and Philologys third excavation of the Yin ruins, it belongs to the Dui group of the first period of divination inscriptions. This piece of bone is frail, and making ...