2nd millennium BCE
2.7 x 4.1 x 8.5 cm (1 1/16 x 1 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
W. C. Burriss Young, Cambridge, MA, bequest; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.
Green nephrite
1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CEChineseCast bronze
11th century BCEChineseWatered steel, gold
17th centuryPersianCopper alloy
2nd millennium BCEHittiteArsenical bronze
3rd millennium BCECycladicIron
JapaneseMixed copper alloy, malachite inlays
2nd century CERomanCast bronze
14th-11th century BCEChineseLeaded copper
3rd millennium BCEIranianLead
Bronze
6th-2nd century BCENear EasternLead