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XVII Dragon and Alligator: Being Notes on Some Ancient Inscribed Bone Carvings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

L. C. Hopkins
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The objects illustrated in the accompanying Plates are published with the aim of bringing to the knowledge of Orientalists and others a type of Chinese relic believed to be of unique design, and presenting an interest of more than one kind. Despite their excellent preservation, they must, for reasons given below, date back at least to the later half of the third century B.C., but how much earlier than that remains at present uncertain.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1913 , pp. 545 - 552
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1913

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page 548 note 1 H. 757 has about a third of the inscribed part of its lower surface defaced, and may perhaps have included the rain character therein.

page 549 note 1 The first variant is from H. 779, the second from H. 338, a shoulderblade. In this last specimen, certain cracks and pittings in the surface make a more precise definition of the right-hand side of the character impossible.