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Heritage information

◇ Heritage No. :

◇ Collection Name:"Fifty Refining" Inscription Steel Sword

◇ Historical date:Eastern Han Dynasty (25 ~ 220 AD)

◇ Collection Size:length 109, width 3.1, thickness 0.9 cm

◇ Collection Source:Unearthed from Han Tomb in Caoshan Mountain of Xuzhou

Introduction of cultural relics


The first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty was 77 AD. The inscription records the specific age, place of manufacture, workshop, craftsman, forging process of the steel sword. We can see from Han Shu that this sword is extremely expensive.