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Bronze fangding vessel
Height 97 (38 'A), width 58 (22 7 A), depth 49.2 (19 Vs),
weight 49 (107 7 A)
Transitional Period (c. 1400-1200 BCE)
From Dayangzhou, Xin'gan, Jiangxi Province
Jiangxi Provincial Museum, Nanchang
Whoever was interred at Dayangzhou — perhaps
a local chief or the lord of a statelet (fangguo) —
the burial accorded him some of the trappings
and status symbols of a Shang noble. On the other
hand, the assemblage as a whole was quite different
from norms familiar from finds in Henan. This
tomb held forty-eight ritual vessels, but a selection
heavily skewed toward pod-base types (thirty-eight
items) for cooking meat offerings (fangding, ding,
and //) and for steaming grain (yan). The remaining
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