洛阳五女冢267号新莽墓发掘简报

Excavation of a Tomb from the Wangmang Period at Wunuzhong near Luoyang

1996年1月,在洛阳市发现了一座保存完整的新莽时期的墓葬,出土大量陶器及青铜器、铁器、石器等。其中1件四神规矩纹铜镜,上有“永和二年五月”的纪年铭文,相当重要。本期刊发了这座墓葬的发掘简报。

In January 1996, archaeologists excavated a well preserved tomb (coded 96HM267) from the Wangmang era of the Han dynasty, located on the northern side of the Shaxi Road within the city of Luoyang. The tomb was a vaulted brick structure of a vertical shaft composded of a tomb passage, a tunnel, a main chamber and a side chamber. A short wall stood at the eastern wall, and in its front was an altar placed with wooden slip-like objects and other tomb furnitures. Large quantities of pottery were yielded, including some minor granaries and jars which contained a variety of plants and foods, each being tagged in red characters on the surface of the vessel. There are also some bronze, iron and stone objects. One of them, a bronze mirror with 'four deities'and 'L'designs, bore the inscription reading 'the fifth month of the second year of the Yongshi reign'. All these discoveries provide new materials for the studies of the Wangmang period in the Luoyang area.