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12O
Two bronze three-pronged objects
Height 119 (467s), width 74 (29 Vs)
Middle Warring States Period,
late fourth century BCE
From Tomb i at Sanji, Pingshan, Hebei Province
Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Institute,
Shijiazhuang
Two sets of large unornamented three-pronged
bronze objects were unearthed from the royal
Zhongshan tombs. Those exhibited 1 belong to a set
of five from one of two horse-and-chariot pits at
the tomb of King Cuo. Unlike the specimens from
Tomb 6 (at the eastern necropolis inside Lingshou),
whose hollow stems were cast separately from the
flat portions, those from Tomb i were each cast as
one piece. The stems contain wood remains of up
to 48 centimeters in length, indicating that these
objects were mounted on poles, presumably for display;
enigmatic symbols on the stems may indicate
their placement. Two of the five specimens are
inscribed, but these inscriptions merely give the
355 | TOMB OF KING CUO OF ZHONCSHAN