安徽巢湖北山头两座墓葬的墓主及相关问题

Occupants of Two Tombs at Beishantou in Chaohu,Anhui and Related Issues

1997年底至1998年初,考古工作者在安徽省巢湖市东部的北山头发掘了两座规模大、出土遗物丰富、时代接近但有早晚关系的墓葬,二墓与1996年在北山头东北1000米处发掘的放王岗西汉墓M1的资料共同公布于同一发掘报告中,并就墓葬时代、性质等进行了分析。本文拟在已公布资料和相关研究的基础上,结合文献记载,对巢湖北山头这两座墓葬的墓主进行探讨和分析。

Archaeological excavations of two large-scale tombs in the core area of the relatively isolated Beishantou cemetery in Chaohu revealed that the tombs were a joint burial of a couple of high-ranking status buried in separate mounds at different times during the early Western Han.Based on scale,form,accoutrements,and grave goods,especially various inscriptions on many artifacts alongside reference to textual records,it is likely that occupants of these two tombs were Liu Liang,the Marquis of Dongcheng,and his wife.As Liu Liang died heirless at an early age and his enfeoffment was thus deposed,he would have been given a unique burial in terms of form and grave goods,and this is directly reflected by tomb No.2 at Beishantou.The grave goods,characteristics,and identification of the occupants of these two tombs at Beishantou provide significant supplementary evidence for conducting study of Western Han marquises'tombs and the funerary system as a whole.