Resource Type:
R011841

Description:
This dagger-axe has a short blade, and a broken hu (pendant attached to the handle). A section of wooden shaft remained in the ring socket. The characters "Dagger-axe used by Hsia, the King of Chou" were carved on the surface of the blade.

Date:
771-221 B.C.

Coverage:
Tomb M1, Shan-piao-chen, Chi-hsien, Honan

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

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