Although only half of them are square faces, hollow eyes, triangular noses and wide ears, which are very similar to the Jin Mianju and Jinsha Daikin masks unearthed in Sanxingdui before.
History of cultural relics:
65438+At the beginning of February, 2020, the archaeological excavation team in the sacrificial area of Sanxingdui site entered the sacrificial area and began to excavate. The opening of the No.5 pit is on the lower 3 floors, about 30-40 cm away from the surface.
When the excavation depth reaches about 50 cm, cultural relics begin to emerge gradually. At first, some small perforated gold plates appeared, and then a large number of white and gray-black fragments were found, which were identified as ivory by composition analysis and other detection methods. Then in the southwest of the middle of pit 5, a relatively large gold foil began to appear.
In the first ten days of 202 1 1, the whole gold foil was completely exposed. In the eyes of ordinary people, it was a crumpled gold foil, but experienced experts immediately guessed and inferred that it was not an ordinary gold foil, but a gold mask.
At the beginning of February, 20021year, according to the work arrangement, the site archaeologists decided to extract the gold foil and hand it over to the laboratory for subsequent cultural relics research and protection.