In 1997, the Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out a rescuing excavation of the ancient tombs discovered at Hengzhigang Road in Guangzhou City. The excavated three tombs are all ...In 1997, the Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out a rescuing excavation of the ancient tombs discovered at Hengzhigang Road in Guangzhou City. The excavated three tombs are all wooden-chambered earth pits and belong to the middle and late Western Han period. They yielded 103 objects, including chiefly pottery, and also a small number of bronzes, talcum articles and crystal and agate beads. The pottery is principally hard clay ware grayish-white in body, coated with yellowish-brown glaze, mostly decorated with designs, and bearing cut signs in some cases. The excavation provided new material for studying the tomb shape and burial custom of this period.展开更多
Through an analysis of the building form of the Han tomb on Beidong Hill and the coins and seals unearthed from there,the author comes to the conclusion that the tomb shows distinct features characteristic of the earl...Through an analysis of the building form of the Han tomb on Beidong Hill and the coins and seals unearthed from there,the author comes to the conclusion that the tomb shows distinct features characteristic of the early Western Han period and can be dated to the time prior to the abolition of the Chu State by the Western Han Dynasty in the third year of the Emperor Jingdi’s Qianyuan reign (154 BC). A Comparative study of this tomb with other Chu princes’ graves of the early Western Han period suggests that the owner of Beidong Hill tomb must have been Liu Ying (Ke),the second Chu prince having the same surname as the emperor’s.展开更多
The gilt silver ewer with decorative patterns unearthed from a Han-and-Jin period tomb at Shangsunjiazhai in Datong,Qinghai Province is a valuable object to researching into early Sino-foreign cultural exchange. Throu...The gilt silver ewer with decorative patterns unearthed from a Han-and-Jin period tomb at Shangsunjiazhai in Datong,Qinghai Province is a valuable object to researching into early Sino-foreign cultural exchange. Through a comparative study of this article and the West Asian,South Russian and Mongolian finds identical with it in decorative pattern and similar in making technology it can be concluded that this ewer must be a product in the Hellenistic Parthian style made no later than the AD 1st century. In the eastward diffusion of this decorative style and making technology,the Eurasian steppe road controlled by the Sarmatians and Xiongnu played the key role. The ewer under discussion may have been made in some place of Central Asia,and its last user must have belonged to the Lushui-Hu differentiated from Xiongnu.展开更多
文摘In 1997, the Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology carried out a rescuing excavation of the ancient tombs discovered at Hengzhigang Road in Guangzhou City. The excavated three tombs are all wooden-chambered earth pits and belong to the middle and late Western Han period. They yielded 103 objects, including chiefly pottery, and also a small number of bronzes, talcum articles and crystal and agate beads. The pottery is principally hard clay ware grayish-white in body, coated with yellowish-brown glaze, mostly decorated with designs, and bearing cut signs in some cases. The excavation provided new material for studying the tomb shape and burial custom of this period.
文摘Through an analysis of the building form of the Han tomb on Beidong Hill and the coins and seals unearthed from there,the author comes to the conclusion that the tomb shows distinct features characteristic of the early Western Han period and can be dated to the time prior to the abolition of the Chu State by the Western Han Dynasty in the third year of the Emperor Jingdi’s Qianyuan reign (154 BC). A Comparative study of this tomb with other Chu princes’ graves of the early Western Han period suggests that the owner of Beidong Hill tomb must have been Liu Ying (Ke),the second Chu prince having the same surname as the emperor’s.
文摘The gilt silver ewer with decorative patterns unearthed from a Han-and-Jin period tomb at Shangsunjiazhai in Datong,Qinghai Province is a valuable object to researching into early Sino-foreign cultural exchange. Through a comparative study of this article and the West Asian,South Russian and Mongolian finds identical with it in decorative pattern and similar in making technology it can be concluded that this ewer must be a product in the Hellenistic Parthian style made no later than the AD 1st century. In the eastward diffusion of this decorative style and making technology,the Eurasian steppe road controlled by the Sarmatians and Xiongnu played the key role. The ewer under discussion may have been made in some place of Central Asia,and its last user must have belonged to the Lushui-Hu differentiated from Xiongnu.
