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>Costume Studies
>>1500BC Shang ya
>>>halberd
Subjectya noble warrior
Culture: Shang
Setting: Shang dynasty, north China 18th-11thc BC
Objectge dagger-ax / halberd






* Freer & Sackler Galleries > Sackler
[left] "Halberd blade (ge)
Late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century B.C.E.
Jade"


* Freer & Sackler Galleries > Sackler
"Halberd blade (ge)
Late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century B.C.E.
Jade" [NOTE: Same description on both labels]




* Royal Ontario Museum > China
"Ge (haches-poignards)
Bronze
1300-1046 av. J.-C.
dynastie Shang"  ...






* Royal Ontario Museum > China
"Ge blades
Jade 
1300-1046 BC
Shang dynasty"  ...




* Smithsonian Visitor Center
"Dagger-axe (ge)  
China, late Shang dynasty (1600-1050 BCE) or Western Zhou dynasty (1050-772 BCE)  
jade"