# Bronze box with tortoise-shaped lid and jade inside

> Bronze box with tortoise-shaped lid and jade inside

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/sanxingdui/artifacts/ART0D73A4FY4CB6/bronze-box-with-tortoise-shaped-lid-and-jade-inside  
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**ART** 0D73A4FY4CB6·Artifact · object

# Bronze box with tortoise-shaped lid and jade inside

ObjectpublisherAbout 3200–3000 BP

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**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

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Bronze box with tortoise-shaped lid and jade inside [Artifact ART0D73A4FY4CB6]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0D73A4FY4CB6
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Key

**ART** 0D73A4FY4CB6

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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