This tomb lies on Mt. Jiuli in the northern suburb of Xuzhou City. It is a burial in a rectangular rock-cut pit. The interior side is lined with rammed red clay and then with three layers of stones. On the eastern sid...This tomb lies on Mt. Jiuli in the northern suburb of Xuzhou City. It is a burial in a rectangular rock-cut pit. The interior side is lined with rammed red clay and then with three layers of stones. On the eastern side of the bottom is a rectangular chamber covered with four rectangular stone slabs. It contains a male corpse. The tomb is good in condition and yielded pottery, bronze, iron, jade and bone funeral objects, totaling 42 pieces/sets. Its shape and grave goods suggest that the burial must belong to Emperor Wudi's reign of the Western Han period.展开更多
Two Western Han tombs at Fenghuangshan in Tongshan County，Jiangsu，were excavated in 1996 and 1998 respectively．Both of them are rectangular rock-cut pits．M1 is a couple’S double-chambered joint burial，contains s...Two Western Han tombs at Fenghuangshan in Tongshan County，Jiangsu，were excavated in 1996 and 1998 respectively．Both of them are rectangular rock-cut pits．M1 is a couple’S double-chambered joint burial，contains stones with engraved rather simple pictures，and dates from earlier mid Western Han period．M2 has a main chamber on the Western bottom and two accompanying burials in the upper part of the pit and on the eastern side of the chamber respectively，and goes back to the late Western Han．Their grave goods comprise 44 pieces(sets)of pottery，bronze，iron and jade artifacts．The excavations provide dimportant data for inquiring into the burial institution and material culture of the Western Han in the Xuzhou area．展开更多
This building site lies in the northwest of the Guigong Palace, about 160m east of Tiesuo village, Liucunbao township, Weiyang district, Xi'an city, Shaanxi province. It consists of two large-sized house-foundatio...This building site lies in the northwest of the Guigong Palace, about 160m east of Tiesuo village, Liucunbao township, Weiyang district, Xi'an city, Shaanxi province. It consists of two large-sized house-foundations arranged from north to south, seven small house-foundations between them, and six ruined walls. The unearthed terra-cotta and pottery objects include bricks, tiles, tile-ends, supports, spindle whorls, jars and lamps. In addition, there are irons, stone tools and copper coins. The houses seem to have not been suitable to human living and activities and must have been a complex of storage rooms built in the Guigong Palace in the mid and late Western Han period, the discovery of which provides important material for studying the structure and layout of the Guigong Palace.展开更多
Through a study of the pictography on the sign-engraved bronze plate from the 13th tomb of the Western Han at Shizhaishan in Jinning,Yunnan,the author re-explains the meanings of some engraved signs and puts forward t...Through a study of the pictography on the sign-engraved bronze plate from the 13th tomb of the Western Han at Shizhaishan in Jinning,Yunnan,the author re-explains the meanings of some engraved signs and puts forward the idea that in this pictography there exists a distinctive figure-value counting method with a certain figure-carrying system.The signs "■," "○" and "—" form the three-grade counting-sign system characteristic of the Dian Kingdom.The plate may have been a bronze back-plate of a Dian nobleman’s lacquered wooden quiver going back to over 2000 BP.展开更多
In 1994, an overall survey and a selective rescuing excavation were carried out to explore tombs at Moshan, Yongcheng City. The cemetery measures about 1,000m in length and 250- 300m in width, and the discovered 58 to...In 1994, an overall survey and a selective rescuing excavation were carried out to explore tombs at Moshan, Yongcheng City. The cemetery measures about 1,000m in length and 250- 300m in width, and the discovered 58 tombs can be divided into two groups, of which 53 have been seriously damaged, and the rest of five graves were excavated in this season. These tombs are rectangular earthen pits with a ramping passage in one case. The funeral objects total 58 unearthed this time and 30 previously collected from M40. They fall into pottery, bronzes, ironware and coins. The tombs date from the early Western Han to the Xinmang period.展开更多
In 1989- 1995, the Henan Yongcheng Municipal Archaeological Team excavated three rock-cut rectangular pits of funeral objects in the prince Liangwang mausoleum precinct on Mr. Mangdang in Yongcheng City. Among them th...In 1989- 1995, the Henan Yongcheng Municipal Archaeological Team excavated three rock-cut rectangular pits of funeral objects in the prince Liangwang mausoleum precinct on Mr. Mangdang in Yongcheng City. Among them the first pit at Tomb 1 on Fuzishan Ridge yielded 14 bronzes belonging to the types of lamp, zeng steamer, basin, ladle, pot, square pot. fu cauldron, mou cooking vessel and yi ewer. The first pit at Tomb 1 on Nanshan Ridge yielded bronze vessels of the zhong basin and pot, and two wuzhu coins. The first pit at Tomb 2 on Tiejiaoshan Ridge provided more than one thousand horse-and-chariot trappings, including axle caps, protections for axles, ornaments of poles, end pieces of canopy spokes, bits, cheek pieces, loops for canopy handles, yi loops on crossbars, jieyue ornaments for rope joints and belt buckles. These three pits are all located in the prince Liangwang mausoleum precinct of the Western Han period, so they should also be dated to that time.展开更多
文摘This tomb lies on Mt. Jiuli in the northern suburb of Xuzhou City. It is a burial in a rectangular rock-cut pit. The interior side is lined with rammed red clay and then with three layers of stones. On the eastern side of the bottom is a rectangular chamber covered with four rectangular stone slabs. It contains a male corpse. The tomb is good in condition and yielded pottery, bronze, iron, jade and bone funeral objects, totaling 42 pieces/sets. Its shape and grave goods suggest that the burial must belong to Emperor Wudi's reign of the Western Han period.
文摘Two Western Han tombs at Fenghuangshan in Tongshan County，Jiangsu，were excavated in 1996 and 1998 respectively．Both of them are rectangular rock-cut pits．M1 is a couple’S double-chambered joint burial，contains stones with engraved rather simple pictures，and dates from earlier mid Western Han period．M2 has a main chamber on the Western bottom and two accompanying burials in the upper part of the pit and on the eastern side of the chamber respectively，and goes back to the late Western Han．Their grave goods comprise 44 pieces(sets)of pottery，bronze，iron and jade artifacts．The excavations provide dimportant data for inquiring into the burial institution and material culture of the Western Han in the Xuzhou area．
文摘This building site lies in the northwest of the Guigong Palace, about 160m east of Tiesuo village, Liucunbao township, Weiyang district, Xi'an city, Shaanxi province. It consists of two large-sized house-foundations arranged from north to south, seven small house-foundations between them, and six ruined walls. The unearthed terra-cotta and pottery objects include bricks, tiles, tile-ends, supports, spindle whorls, jars and lamps. In addition, there are irons, stone tools and copper coins. The houses seem to have not been suitable to human living and activities and must have been a complex of storage rooms built in the Guigong Palace in the mid and late Western Han period, the discovery of which provides important material for studying the structure and layout of the Guigong Palace.
文摘Through a study of the pictography on the sign-engraved bronze plate from the 13th tomb of the Western Han at Shizhaishan in Jinning,Yunnan,the author re-explains the meanings of some engraved signs and puts forward the idea that in this pictography there exists a distinctive figure-value counting method with a certain figure-carrying system.The signs "■," "○" and "—" form the three-grade counting-sign system characteristic of the Dian Kingdom.The plate may have been a bronze back-plate of a Dian nobleman’s lacquered wooden quiver going back to over 2000 BP.
文摘In 1994, an overall survey and a selective rescuing excavation were carried out to explore tombs at Moshan, Yongcheng City. The cemetery measures about 1,000m in length and 250- 300m in width, and the discovered 58 tombs can be divided into two groups, of which 53 have been seriously damaged, and the rest of five graves were excavated in this season. These tombs are rectangular earthen pits with a ramping passage in one case. The funeral objects total 58 unearthed this time and 30 previously collected from M40. They fall into pottery, bronzes, ironware and coins. The tombs date from the early Western Han to the Xinmang period.
文摘In 1989- 1995, the Henan Yongcheng Municipal Archaeological Team excavated three rock-cut rectangular pits of funeral objects in the prince Liangwang mausoleum precinct on Mr. Mangdang in Yongcheng City. Among them the first pit at Tomb 1 on Fuzishan Ridge yielded 14 bronzes belonging to the types of lamp, zeng steamer, basin, ladle, pot, square pot. fu cauldron, mou cooking vessel and yi ewer. The first pit at Tomb 1 on Nanshan Ridge yielded bronze vessels of the zhong basin and pot, and two wuzhu coins. The first pit at Tomb 2 on Tiejiaoshan Ridge provided more than one thousand horse-and-chariot trappings, including axle caps, protections for axles, ornaments of poles, end pieces of canopy spokes, bits, cheek pieces, loops for canopy handles, yi loops on crossbars, jieyue ornaments for rope joints and belt buckles. These three pits are all located in the prince Liangwang mausoleum precinct of the Western Han period, so they should also be dated to that time.
