Silver Drug Box
Tang Dynasty
Unearthed at Hejiacun Village,Xi’an,in 1970.H:4.6 cm,d:16.7 cm.Inside the cover,a paragraph reads:"The four ingredients include one large jin of broken red lustrous cinnabar,15 white jade cubes,one pointed bone-jade,and one deeply spotted jade.Each 15,with a jade ring."Lustrous cinnabar was an ingredient of chemical elixirs as well as life-prolonging medicines.A large fin is 3 standard fin,or about 6009m.(Collection of Shanxi Provincial Museum)