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This crystal cup, excavated from a Banshan Shitang Warring States tomb in Hangzhou; carbon-14 dated to the mid-to-late Warring States period, over 2,000 years ago[960x1280]
Warring States · Crystal Cup
Warring States period (475–221 BC)
Height 15.4 cm, rim diameter 7.6 cm, base diameter 5.2 cm
Excavated in 1990 at Shitang, Banshan, Hangzhou
To verify its authenticity, the crystal cup was sent to Beijing for appraisal. Combined with carbon-14 and thermoluminescence dating, archaeologists collected charcoal samples left behind from the tomb ruins where the crystal cup was buried.
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