CHINA-SICHUAN-SANXINGDUI RUINS-BRONZE SCULPTURE-COMBINATION (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-SANXINGDUI RUINS-BRONZE SCULPTURE-COMBINATION (CN)

(220616) -- GUANGHAN, June 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Lei Yu, a researcher of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archeology Research Institute, views a successfully matched bronze sculpture that depicts a human-head, snake-body, and bird-claw figure on June 16, 2022. A newly unearthed bronze sculpture at the famed Sanxingdui Ruins site was successfully matched with another bronzeware part after being set apart about 3,000 years ago, the archaeological team confirmed Thursday. The sophisticated bronze sculpture depicts a figure of a human head and snake body, with protruding eyes, tusks, and horns. Above the head is a cinnabar trumpet-shaped zun (an ancient wine vessel) and the figure is linked by its hands and a square pedestal urn-shaped lei (an ancient wine vessel.) Without the rear part of the body, the sculpture was recently excavated from the No. 8 sacrificial pit. Archaeologists later found that another bronzeware part, which was unearthed from the No. 2 pit in 1986, can perfectly match with t

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