论两汉洛阳地区中小型墓葬耳室之演变

汉墓耳室的作用主要为放置随葬品,间或葬人。两汉洛阳地区墓内耳室的形制在这一时期经历了四个阶段的变化,通过对耳室形制的型式划分可知,以西汉晚期为界,洛阳地区汉墓耳室的规模逐渐由盛转衰。社会经济的发展、墓葬的宅第化趋势与厚葬的社会习俗促进了耳室的繁荣,而前堂后室墓的出现与随葬品的转移则造成了耳室繁荣之后的衰退,同时合葬的习俗推动耳室向侧室的转移。

The small side chambers of a Han tomb was usually used to hold burial goods,and occasionally human bodies.In the Han dynasty,the side chambers had undergone a four-stage change and a typological study of these side chambers suggests the size of side chambers started to get smaller from the later Western Han dynasty.With the development of social economy,the tombs began to imitate houses and were richly furnished,which promote the prosperity of the side chambers,while the appearance of the tombs with a front chamber and a rear chamber,the prevalence of joint burial,and the changed placement of the burial goods,caused the decline of small side chambers.