Subject: ya noble warrior

Culture: Shang

Setting: Shang dynasty, north China 18th-11thc BC

Object: 戈 ge dagger-ax / halberd

Royal Ontario Museum > China *

"Ge blades Jade

1300-1046 BC

Shang dynasty" ...

* Sackler Gallery

[left] "Halberd blade (ge)

Late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century B.C.E.

Jade"

* Sackler Gallery

"Halberd blade (ge) Late Shang dynasty, 12th-11th century B.C.E. Jade"

Royal Ontario Museum > China *

"Ge (haches-poignards) Bronze

1300-1046 av. J.-C. dynastie Shang" ...

* Smithsonian Visitor Center

"Dagger-axe (ge) China, late Shang dynasty (1600-1050 BCE) or Western Zhou dynasty (1050-772 BCE) jade"

* Kimbell Art Museum > Passport to Asia

Ge blade China, Erlitou orShang period, c. 2000-1500 BC Jade

Ge blade with bronze handle China, late Shang period, c. 13th-11th century BC Jade and bronze

Ceremonial blades are one of the main categories of jades found during the excavations of the Erlitou

site (c. 2000-1600 BC). Erlitou is the first bronze-using culture identified in central China, and the site

has yielded remains of fortification walls and foundations of large palatial structures associated with richly

furnished tombs of the elite.

"Unlike zhang-type blades, which are derived from similar utilitarian tools of the Neolithic period, the ge

halberd represents a type of blade whose shape shows no derivation from earlier models. It was developed

at the Erlitou site and remained in use during the following Shang dynasty (c. 1600-1050 BC). Ge are

characterized by a pointed tip, beveled sides, and a central slightly raised ridge."