206 BCE - 9 CE
L. 8.5 x W. 2.6 x D. 1.4 cm (3 3/8 x 1 x 9/16 in.) Weight 46 g
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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