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Image: Rubbing of a Han Citang

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Description: A rubbing of a Chinese Han Dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) pictorial stone (i.e. the Yinan stone carving of Shandong province, China) showing an ancestral worship hall (citang 祠堂) with closed doors, a person outside making a sacrificial offering to his ancestors, and horses and trees in the background.
Title: Rubbing of a Han Citang
Credit: Photo scanned from "Constructing Citang in Han" in Rethinking Recarving China's Past (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Princeton University Art Museum, 2008), by Michael Nylan, edited by Naomi Noble Richard.
Author: Unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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