# Bronze figure with a human head on a snake's body, holding a lei, with a zun on its head

> Bronze figure with a human head on a snake's body, holding a lei, with a zun on its head

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/artifacts/ART0D73A4847Y61/bronze-figure-with-a-human-head-on-a-snakes-body-holding-a  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
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**ART** 0D73A4847Y61·Artifact · object

# Bronze figure with a human head on a snake's body, holding a lei, with a zun on its head

ObjectpublisherAbout 3200–3000 BP

[Cite]

**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-13000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese-civilization-180980254/).

press photographs of the excavation. publisher

## Copies 1

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

[Where it's published](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-13000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese-civilization-180980254/)

## 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_
- [Trove of 13,000 Artifacts Sheds Light on Enigmatic Chinese Civilization](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D739NV63J28/trove-of-13-000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Bronze figure with a human head on a snake's body, holding a lei, with a zun on its head [Artifact ART0D73A4847Y61]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D73A4847Y61
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Key

**ART** 0D73A4847Y61

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)

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