Oracle Bone
CultureChinese
DateShang dynasty (1500-1045 B.C.E.)
MediumBovid scapula
DimensionsOverall: 2 × 1 × 3 inches (5.08 × 2.54 × 7.62 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Menefee D. Blackwell
Object number2000.12.8
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA dark brown/gray colored porous bone fragment. The front surface is smooth with two columns of inscribed Chinese characters. The reverse has a small section removed with an adjacent black ashen mark.ProvenanceLaurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by 1988;
His gift to Menefee D. Blackwell (1916-2000), Kansas City, MO, by 1988-2000 [1];
His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2000.
NOTES:
[1] According to accession paperwork in the Nelson-Atkins files. Menefee D. Blackwell served as a University Trustee for the Nelson-Atkins from 1956 to 1991.
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