Gu: Polyhedral Tablets
Gu are polyhedral wooden sticks, often trihedral or tetrahedral—even heptahedral. Always over 30 cm in length, they were used to make copies of summonses, character primers, or to practice writing.
- Item No.
- 456.5
- Period
- Han dynasty (206 B.C.–220 A.D.)
- Dimensions
- 長30.3、徑1.6公分
- Excavated/Findspot
- P9 Boro-tsonch, Edsen-gol, Inner Mongolia
- Materials
- Wood