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English: A Chinese ceramic architectural model of a grain storage tower with five layers of tiled rooftops and columns supporting the roofs of balconies on the first two floors, dated from the mid Western Han (202 BC – 9 AD) to early Eastern Han (25–220 AD) era, excavated in 1953 from a tomb at Weihe, Xingyang, Henan Province, China. It is 72 cm tall. This information is taken from:
  • Guo, Qinghua. (2005). Chinese Architecture and Planning: Ideas, Methods, and Techniques . Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 3932565541 .
This tower is now located in the Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China; this photo is from the collection posted at www.GaryLeeTodd.com by Dr. Gary L. Todd, Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China.
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See also the category Photographs by Gary Lee Todd .

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