洛阳尹屯新莽壁画墓

A MURAL TOMB OF THE XINMANG PERIOD AT YINTUN VILLAGE,YIYANG,LUOYANG

2003年3月，洛阳市宜阳县丰李镇尹屯村农民在村南台地取土时发现了一座砖室古墓，随后当地村民多人进入墓室中试图掘取随葬物品。宜阳县公安局丰李镇派出所获悉后立即保护了现场并报告文物部门。我队闻讯后立即派员到达现场，经勘察发现墓室内保存有较完整的壁画。经上级批准我队于2003年3月13日至2003年4月30日，对这座墓葬(编号：LYYM1)做了抢救性清理。

During March 2003,the Second Luoyang Municipal Archaeological Team excavated a large-sized mural tomb of the Xinmang period at Yintun village southwest of Luoyang proper.Both the tomb structure and the murals have important academic and artistic value. This is a brick tomb with a dome and multiple chambers.Due to several serious robberies,the funeral objects discovered this time have all been broken.The identifiable types include pottery,stone and bone wares,bronze horse-and-chariot fittings,and coins. The murals are mostly painted in the upper part of the middle and rear chambers.In the middle chamber,the main pictures foiled with painted columns,lintels and bracket systems and separated by columns into several blocks according to their contents.They represent clouds,the sun,the moon and constellations,gods,immortals,anthropomorphic beings and fantastic animals,the Green Dragon and White Tiger,etc..In the rear chamber the paintings are mainly dense scroll-like clouds with phoenixes'heads and floral patterns scattered among them. In subject,composition and representing skill,these murals are rather different from the wall paintings previously discovered in contemporary tombs across the Luoyang area. However,in painting style they are similar to their counterparts found at Jinguyuan, Luoyang and Xincun,Yanshi.These phenomena represent the transition from the Western Han and the Eastern Han.Thus the excavation of the Yintun mural tomb provides new and important data for research into the artistic features and composition style of paintings,the structure of buildings,the ideology of society and the concepts of celestial bodies in the Xinmang period.