Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology  Weinan Municipal Institute of Culture Protection & Archaeology  Hancheng Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau

A Brief Report of the Excavation of the No.M19 site at Liangdai village in Hancheng city, Shaanxi   (3)

 

Xi’an Municipal Institute of Culture Protection & Archaeology

Brief report on the Clearing of a Chronological Tombs in the Cao – Wei Empire (220 – 265) of the Three – Kingdoms Period (220 - 280), located in Xi’an   (21)

    Two tombs of the Wei Dynasty were founded and unearthed in May of 2005, at a construction site in Guo Du, Chang’an district of Xi’an city. Tomb No.13 is a couple joint tomb, a pottery bottle came out, with the vermilion words written [18^th December, 1^st Jingyuan year] in Chinese era, (Yuan Emperor, Wei Nation of the Three Kingdoms, 4^th February, 261 A.D). This is the first confirmation of Wei’s years – counting tomb in Xi’an. The configuration of the 2 tombs based on the type of East Han, is a cavity tomb with front – and – aft chambers. There are two side – rooms on both sides of the front chamber of Tomb No.14. Unearthed utensils inherit from East Han’s style including pottery formers: jar、board、well、granary、hearth、bottle with characters、pig、dog、chook. This event provided important practical information for the research of tomb evolvement during the period of Three Kingdoms located in Xi’an and northern China. It also supported evidence for the age – estimate on archaian tombs.

 

Zhang Quanmin

The Recognition of a red – legend Tomb – Protection Inscription in the 1^st Year of Jingyuan Emperor of Cao – Wei (220 - 265) Empire Kingdom   (30)

 

Liang Yanmin

A Research of the Cylendrical Ancient Wine Vessel made in the earlier Zhou Dynasty   (33)

 

Textual Research on the Name and Description of the Inscribed Bone Labels Unearthed from the Weiyang – gone Palace Site in Han Chang’an City   (48)

    Judging from the shape, the conditions when being unearthed, the characteristics of processing and the inscriptions, as well as from the comparisons and analysis of the bows unearthed in recent years from various locations, we can conclude that the so called inscribed bone labels should be a part of the crossbow or the bony tips at each end of a compound bow. These bony tips are bone patches that were stuck upon a crossbow or the sides of a bowstring knots. Four pieces of bone patches were attached to each bow or crossbow. Bone labels of different shapes and sizes were affixed to bows or crossbows of different size and functions. These bone labels, according to the inscriptions, were made in Henan, Yingchuan and Nanyang. The large numbers of the bone labels unearthed from the No.3 Remains were mostly abandoned pieces after the repairing of the bows or crossbows. The lacation of excavation should be a military repairing and repairing station set up by the army safeguarding the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty, or the specialized departments such as Shaofu Ruolu, Shangfang and Kaogong, etc.

 

Han Zhao

Comparison and Research on difference between Chinese Murals in Tombs in the period of Wei, Jin, South & North Dynasties and Japanese Ornamental Ancient Tombs   (69)