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He 盉
A 24.5 cm high bronze vessel in the form of a he 盉 was excavated in
1987 from Tomb no. 1 in Sector II of the Erlitou site, a tomb
which belongs to Period IV of the Erlitou culture. This bronze he 盉
morphologically resembles ceramic he 盉 of the same period, with a fat,
round, thin-walled globular body topped by a sloping opening on one
of its sides and an upwardly raised pouring spout on the other. A long
semi-circular handle extends from the middle of the body on the side
below its top opening to the centre of one of the vessel’s three wide
triangular legs.
He 盉 87YLIIM1
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