辽宁朝阳市姑营子辽代耿氏家族3、4号墓发掘简报

The Excavation of the Tombs Nos.3 and 4 of the Geng Family Cemetery at Guyingzi Village,Chaoyang City,Liaoning

3号墓为砖砌单室墓,由墓道、天井、墓门、甬道、墓室等组成,出有陶器、瓷器、铁器等遗物。4号墓为砖砌仿木结构双室墓,墓室内仅余一合墓志及少量遗物。4号墓主为辽初汉姓贵族、曾任节度使的通事耿崇美及夫人耶律氏。两座墓的发掘对研究辽代兴中府汉姓贵族家族史及其联姻关系有重要意义。

In 1997 and 2002,Chaoyang Museum and other institutions recovered the Tombs Nos.3 and 4 of the Geng Family Cemetery at Guyingzi Village in Chaoyang City.Tomb No.3 was a brick single-chamber tomb consisting of the passageway,the ventilating shaft,the entrance,the corridor and the tomb chamber.The grave goods unearthed from this tomb are potteries,iron implements,bronzes and agate ornaments,and so on.Tomb No.4,a brick double-chamber imitating wooden structure,had been looted much earlier before the excavation,and only a set of epitaph and very few grave goods were yielded.According to the epitaph,the occupants of this tomb were Geng Chongmei,who had been a translator in the early Liao Dynasty and was ever assigned as Jiedushi（military commissioner） and his wife（nee Yelü）.Geng Chongmei was an aristocrat of the Han ethnic group with preeminent status in the early Liao Dynasty,and his epitaph is significantly meaningful for the researches on the histories of the elite clans of the Han people in the Xingzhong Prefecture of the Liao Dynasty and their marriage relations.