Epitaph cover of Prince Yuan Mi, 524 CE

Black limestone epitaph cover of Prince Yuan Mi, from Hunan province, China. From the cover's descrption on artsmia.org: "This protective cover, carved in low relief, contains remnants of bronze handles in the four corners and eight blank squares which were possibly used to position bronze ritual vessels during ancestral ceremonies. The incised decor, consisting of a pair of contending dragons and two phoenixes set against a cloud pattern, has both imperial and Daoist overtones in its symbolism." More information about it here: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/740/epitaph-cover-of-prince-yuan-mi-china A model of Yuan Mi's epitaph calligraphy tablet: https://skfb.ly/6tEqL A model of Yuan Mi's sarcophagus: https://skfb.ly/6tE7S Made with about 40 20-megapixel images, shot in 2013, and processed in Photoscan.