洛阳市西工区C1M3943战国墓

Excavation of Some Warring States Tombs in Luoyang

洛阳西工区是发现东周墓葬较集中的地点,1992年发掘的一座战国墓(CIM3943)出土随葬品种类较多,其中有多件精品。墓为长方形土坑竖穴,单棺,内葬一人。随葬器物计63件(组),包括金器、玉器、玛瑙器、玻璃器、铜器、陶器等,仅带钩就有纯金制作、用9块玉组成并以铁丝铆合以及铜质嵌金银的多种。玉器中有玉龙、玉璧、玉印等,印文为“事君子”。此墓应属周王室的陪葬墓,墓主人可能是一位女性。

Some twenty tombs of the Eastern Zhou period were excavated at a construction sitein Luoyang in December 1992. One of the tomb coded C1M3943 is impressive for a largeyield of exquiste funerary objects, which was quite rare in the previous excavation inLuoyang area. The tomb is of a rectangular earthen shaft containing one coffin with one dead. A to-tal of 63 pieces or sets of different kinds of objects made of gold, jade, agate, glass, bronze,pottery, etc., were unearthed. Special mention should be made of the unearthed belt hooks,some of them made of pure gold, some consisting of nine jade plates connected togetherwith iron threads, and some made of bronze with gold and silver inlay. The jade articlesinclude dragon, bi-disc and a seal with three characters. Two blocks of powder turned outto be cosmetics according to the infrared spectrum test. The tomb occupant seem to be a woman related with the royal family of the Zhoudynasty.