# Largest bronze mask from the new pits (74 × 135 cm)

> Largest bronze mask from the new pits (74 × 135 cm)

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/artifacts/ART0D73A40A0G2M/largest-bronze-mask-from-the-new-pits-74-135-cm  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

---

[Mysteries](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries)[Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui)[Artifacts](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui#artifacts)Largest bronze mask from the new pits (74 × 135 cm)

**ART** 0D73A40A0G2M·Artifact · object

# Largest bronze mask from the new pits (74 × 135 cm)

ObjectpublisherAbout 3200–3000 BP

[Cite]

**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3181763/why-archaeologists-are-so-excited-chinas-sanxingdui-ruins).

press photographs of the excavation. publisher

## Copies 1

**Photo** press photographs of the excavation · scmp.com · 2022 · publisher1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3181763/why-archaeologists-are-so-excited-chinas-sanxingdui-ruins)

## Where it is kept

[Sanxingdui](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D739RRY4D0Z/sanxingdui) · Bronze Age walled settlement and sacrificial area

## Sources 2

- [Deciphering the origins of Sanxingdui bronzes through petrographic and elemental analysis of casting cores](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D739MVY6VCB/deciphering-the-origins-of-sanxingdui-bronzes-through)_SRC_
- [Why archaeologists are so excited by China's Sanxingdui ruins](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D739P301TG0/why-archaeologists-are-so-excited-by-chinas-sanxingdui-ruins)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Largest bronze mask from the new pits (74 × 135 cm) [Artifact ART0D73A40A0G2M]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D73A40A0G2M
```

Key

**ART** 0D73A40A0G2M

Kind

Object

Held by

Sanxingdui Museum / Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

Dated

about 3200–3000 BP

Licence

publisher

Place

[Sanxingdui](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D739RRY4D0Z/sanxingdui)

Part of

[Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui)

The record

Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history.

[JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/ART0D73A40A0G2M)