In September -- October, 1993, a batch of brick-chambered tombs was excavated by the Chengdu Archaeological Team at Huacheng village in the Western suburb of Chengdu city. Of them SMll, 16, 17 and 19, JM1 and 2 and pr...In September -- October, 1993, a batch of brick-chambered tombs was excavated by the Chengdu Archaeological Team at Huacheng village in the Western suburb of Chengdu city. Of them SMll, 16, 17 and 19, JM1 and 2 and previously-cleared FM1 belong to the Tang period. These are rectangular or irregularly trapezoid in plan and mostly has a single chamber with a corridor leading to it, which is usually wider in the front and narrower in the rear, with a row of mural columns built at the end adjoining the tomb-gate. The funeral objects are small in number, the basic combination being formed by vessels of the porcelain bowl and dish-shape-mouthed pot and the pottery coin bank. The seven Tang tombs can further be dated as follows:SM16 to the beginning of the Tang; SM17 to the early stage; JM2 and FM1 to the early middle; JM1 to the middle; and SMll and 19 to the late stage.展开更多
文摘In September -- October, 1993, a batch of brick-chambered tombs was excavated by the Chengdu Archaeological Team at Huacheng village in the Western suburb of Chengdu city. Of them SMll, 16, 17 and 19, JM1 and 2 and previously-cleared FM1 belong to the Tang period. These are rectangular or irregularly trapezoid in plan and mostly has a single chamber with a corridor leading to it, which is usually wider in the front and narrower in the rear, with a row of mural columns built at the end adjoining the tomb-gate. The funeral objects are small in number, the basic combination being formed by vessels of the porcelain bowl and dish-shape-mouthed pot and the pottery coin bank. The seven Tang tombs can further be dated as follows:SM16 to the beginning of the Tang; SM17 to the early stage; JM2 and FM1 to the early middle; JM1 to the middle; and SMll and 19 to the late stage.
