Master Archaeologist

Chapter 212
"His grandma's!"

"These tomb robbers are really clean!"

Zhuang Yunpeng cursed angrily.

After cleaning up the soil in the main tomb all afternoon, it turned out that most of them were just some decorations!
There are silver ornaments with gold deer patterns, gold ornaments with octagonal branches, silver ornaments with gold riding and shooting figures, gold elephant ornaments inlaid with turquoise and so on.

Some of these decorations were unearthed in the disturbed soil of the coffin bed in the main tomb, some were unearthed in the disturbed soil at the northwest corner of the coffin bed in the main tomb, and some were unearthed on the steps of the tomb passage.

In terms of style alone, they are actually pretty good-looking.

It is pasted with gold deer patterns and silver ornaments, engraved with cloud patterns around it, and a deer is walking in the center, with its right front hoof raised, its head swaggering, swallowing clouds, and its neck is tied with brocade silk, which is very delicate.

The octagonal twig gold ornament is a pure gold ornament, regular octagonal, chiseled and engraved with twig patterns.There are 4 small nail holes on the edge.

It is even more remarkable to paste the silver ornaments of the riding and shooting figures with gold. The silver ornaments are pasted with gold, and the images of the riding and shooting figures are engraved.

The figure is looking back and shooting arrows, wearing a felt hat, wearing a Hu suit, stepping on stirrups, drawing a bow and setting an arrow in the shape of riding and shooting.

The horse stretches its limbs, flies and leaps, wears a bridle on its head, and wears a saddle bow!

That is a handsome man!
This patch is also the largest, with a length of 23 cm and a residual height of 16 cm!

The gold elephant veneer inlaid with turquoise is a pure gold veneer, which is a complete pictogram. There are chiseled flowers and plants on the body of the elephant, and there are hairs carved with thin lines on the feet of the elephant.

That is a lifelike and exquisite.

But these veneers are good-looking, and we must not forget their original function!
Patchwork Patchwork is naturally a piece for decoration!
These plaques are just decorations sewn on some funerary objects.

It's like the brooches and badges that modern people wear on their clothes.

It is estimated that it has been buried underground for a long time, and these ornaments have fallen and fallen off from the original funerary objects.

Then later tomb robbers didn't have time to pay attention to these gold and silver pieces that fell in the soil, so they escaped being stolen.

Only they escaped, and the rest of the funerary objects were basically stolen.

Anyway, the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Qinghai Archaeological Institute did not find a few complete burial objects in the main tomb.

Except for the vase and the gold cup that Wei Lai found, there are very few other complete funeral objects.

In the evening, they found several gilt silver medals with animal faces, gold ornaments on the front bridge of the saddle, golden apricot leaves, remnants of turquoise-inlaid gold coverings, and several pieces of silver ornaments of Lifeng.

There are still some decorations, and there are no complete cultural relics.

Instead, a gilded silver plate was found in the disturbed soil of the main tomb, that is, in the soil layer that had been turned over.

However, this gilt silver plate is broken. Except for the central flower pattern and the surrounding symmetrical Ruyi cloud pattern which are golden due to gilding, the rest of the plate is black oxidized silver, and it is broken into several pieces.

It should be that when the tomb robbers found this gilt silver plate, they saw the black traces of silver oxidation and threw it violently on the ground before it broke.

Silver oxidized to black was basically worthless in ancient times.

It's not that the ancients didn't know what to do with silver oxide, they just had to remelt it.

It's just that this thing is a cultural relic, a gilt silver plate.

What is valuable is itself, not silver.

For the tomb robbers, if they have the time to remelt it into silver, they might as well throw it away.

Silver is not very valuable in modern times.

In addition to the gold and silver lacquer plate containing grape seeds that Wei Lai found on the altar, this is all the gold and silver wares found in the entire tomb.

It is estimated that most of the more than 600 cultural relics stolen by the tomb robbers must have been stolen from the main tomb.

Otherwise, the most important main tomb could not have only this little gold and silverware.

Although the Tang Dynasty favored thin burials, that refers to the Tang Dynasty, not Tuyuhun.

And even if the people of the Tang Dynasty had thin burials, the "thin burials" of nobles were different from those of ordinary people.

If a commoner has a coffin with some lighting objects in it, it will be regarded as a light burial.

But for the thin burial of nobles, the best coffins should be used, and some daily necessities that the deceased loved to use, as well as gold and silverware, clothes, etc., all need to be buried with them.

The so-called thin burial is just not to bother to create valuables specially used for burial.

Most of the things that the owner of the tomb used during his lifetime must be brought into the tomb.

This is the "personal item" of the owner of the tomb, and it belongs to him even after death.

Tang nobles with a little bit of status, when they were buried, they would also be buried with a lot of gold and silver wares.

Especially female nobles, the jewelry and storage boxes she used during her lifetime have always been the top priority in the excavation of Tang Dynasty tombs.

However, in the main tomb where the husband and wife were buried together, no piece of jewelry from the hostess was found.

"Hopefully, the hostess' jewelry is placed in the side room."

In the evening, in a small restaurant in Reshui Township, the staff of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Qinghai Institute of Archeology filled the restaurant.

Lin Ya took a sip of beer and said with some emotion: "It is said that the gold and silver jewelry in the Tang Dynasty is the most exquisite, and the status of women in the Jutang Dynasty is also the highest in history."

"It turned out that not a single piece of jewelry was found in this tomb, which is really a pity."

Zhuang Yunpeng took up the conversation: "Datang is Datang, and Tuyuhun is Tuyuhun. Although Tuyuhun is closer to Datang and was conquered by Datang, the national culture and customs must still be different."

The status of women in the Tang Dynasty, as well as the living environment, are indeed the best in all dynasties.

This can be seen from the clothing of women in the Tang Dynasty.

Low-cut dress, revealing career line.

This kind of open atmosphere cannot be achieved by any Chinese dynasty.

And it's more and more impossible the further you go.

Only in the Tang Dynasty, women could be so open.

Not only are there no taboos in dressing, but you can also take the initiative to separate from your husband, and there is no psychological burden for a second marriage.

This may be the special atmosphere brought to Datang by Wu Zetian, Shangguan Wan'er, Princess Taiping and other ruthless women.

Why do Chinese people feel that the Han and Tang Dynasties are more representative of Chinese culture, more proud of China, and more powerful.

Perhaps it has something to do with the openness of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the higher status of women, and the more generous appearance of the social atmosphere.

At least Lin Ya liked the Han and Tang Dynasties very much, so she chose Qin and Han archeology as her main research direction.

However, this time in the main tomb of Xinxuewei No. [-] Tomb, no jewelry from the hostess was found, which made her very disappointed.

"Among the stolen cultural relics recovered, there are a large number of women's jewelry and gold and silverware for daily use."

Professor Ke said indifferently: "If you want to see it, I can take you to the Cultural Relics Preservation Library to see it later."

"And we only cleared part of the main tomb, maybe some gold and silverware from the hostess will be found in the next few days."

"It's really not possible, there are four side rooms, maybe one of them is dedicated to placing the funeral objects of the hostess!"

(End of this chapter)