Master Archaeologist

Chapter 261 Ten cauldrons!

"Big Liu Seal!"

All the people from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, surrounded the jade seal and pointed.

"Big" is actually an adjective, which means huge, and it is a word that shows glory.

For example, Da Qin and Da Han.

Adding the word "big" before the name of the country here is actually a way to show glory.

"Big Liu" has almost the same meaning.

In the Western Han Dynasty, only members of the Liu family could engrave the word "Da Liu" on the seal.

"Da Liu Jiyin", this seal, while showing the high status of the family, also cleverly avoids personal information.

This shows that this should be a private seal of the owner of the tomb.

Public seals and official seals must clearly leave the name of the owner, otherwise it is impossible to determine who stamped the seal.

There is no such requirement for private printing.

In the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties of later generations, the private seals of many literati took various names.

What XX Shanren, XX hall master, XX layman, etc., if you don't have research on these literati, you will not be able to recognize who the owners of these private seals are.

Although the Western Han Dynasty did not have such a "tactful" private printing system, the people of the Western Han Dynasty have already begun to play around.

But this jade seal is still very interesting.

Using turtles as buttons implies the meaning of subordinates, and general officials use tortoise buttons.

However, on the seal, "Da Liu" was specially engraved to show his identity, but it was contrary to his subordinates.

If members of the Liu family wanted to engrave a private seal to show their identity, they would not use the turtle button, but the double bucket button.

The double button is mostly seen in high-end seals such as king seals and emperor seals, symbolizing rights.

It is quite special to have turtle buttons like this with the seal of "Da Liu".

There is a kind, although I am your courtier, but my status is also very high-ranking, and I also have the taste of a "big Liu family".

Considering that the owner of this tomb is most likely Liu He.

It seems that it is easy to understand that he has such a "rebellious" private seal.

"Unfortunately, the name "Liu He" was not directly engraved." Zhuang Yunpeng said with great regret.

Just a little bit, just a little bit, he could find the seal representing the identity of the owner of the tomb.

Chen Han shook his head: "Liu He's Hou seal or real name seal is most likely in the inner coffin."

"Maybe when he was encoffined, he hung it close to his waist."

"Oh, if you're wearing a golden jade suit, you might put it in a lacquer box and put it in your head box."

"Golden jade clothes?" Kong Jianwen shook his head: "It's unlikely."

"Since there are no yellow sausages, then Liu He probably won't need the golden jade clothes."

"By the time of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the golden jade clothes should have formed a system, and it was not available to non-vassal kings."

"Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty didn't even give Huo Guang a golden hazel jade garment, but a Zigong, a private room, and a yellow sausage ticou."

"Then Liu He, who was only a lieutenant at the time of his death, is even less likely to have the jade robe."

After everyone looked around the jade seal for a while, after making sure that there was nothing new to discover, they immediately dispersed again.

If the word "Liu He" did not appear, it would not be considered a big discovery at the final word level.

Why do you have to keep going.

Chen Han followed Kong Jianwen and returned to the area they had cleared before.

Beside a lacquered wooden bed.

Yes, there is also a lacquered wooden bed in the inner coffin chamber.

But this bed was much worse than the one in the outer outer coffin room, it had already collapsed into a plank.

And at the corner of the bed, that is, at the edge of the bed, there is a pile of tripods neatly placed beside the bed.

Before, Chen Han and Kong Jianwen had extracted three tripods.

But the strange thing is that behind these three tripods, there is still a pile of tripods.

"One, two, three, four, five"

Kong Jianwen frowned and counted.

A total of five tripods!

Plus the three extracted before, it will add up to eight tripods!

"No, there are two more."

Chen Han pointed to the sunken position at the head of the bed and said.

At the head of the bed, there are two more tripods, one is a round tripod and the other is a square tripod.

"ninety!"

Kong Jianwen frowned deeply: "Then this is not the nine tripods, but the ten tripods!"

"What kind of road is this!"

Including the three extracted before, a total of ten tripods were placed under the bed!

The tripod was an important ritual vessel in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Fortunately, in the Shang Dynasty, the tripod was used not only as a ritual vessel, but also as a sacrificial vessel. Therefore, at the Yin Ruins, sometimes a dozen or twenty tripods could be found in the pit of a big nobleman, and each tripod contained boiled water. cooked sacrificial offerings.

But after the Zhou Dynasty, the system of Jiuding and Bagui basically became the consensus of the world.

The emperor can only be buried with Jiuding.

Shiding, this is even beyond the scope of normal etiquette.

Chen Han spread out his hands: "Those tripods found in the eastern Tibetan room can also be understood as the sacrificial tripods of Jitian."

"But these ten tripods cannot be explained."

"This must be a tripod for ritual vessels."

Kong Jianwen scratched his head: "Did you see the gui?"

With ten tripods, what about the gui?

Could it be that there is still Jiugui?
"These bronze tripods seem to be a complete set to me."

After thinking about it, Kong Jianwen said, "First extract the bed as a whole, and then look at what's under the bed."

These tripods are all on the edge of the bed, and because the bed has collapsed, many things placed under the bed are temporarily invisible.

Maybe there is another set of gui under the bed.

What is the specific situation, we have to extract the bed first.

Chen Han also agreed with the teacher's decision.

After he stood up and went to find a few people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, everyone was busy extracting the bed as a whole.

This is a big project.

Although the bed has collapsed, it still maintains an overall shape, and it may be repaired.

A Western Han bed made of lacquered wood is a very rare cultural relic and must be treated properly.

After spending more than two days and formulating several plans, the bed was finally taken out as a whole smoothly.

Wrapped in layers of wooden boxes, more than a dozen people carried the bed and rushed straight to the archaeological base next to the tomb.

The bed was quickly sent to the cultural relics protection room and soaked in clean water again.

Because organic cultural relics are difficult to preserve.

Especially the lacquered wood bed that was originally in a water-saturated environment.

Under normal circumstances, lacquered woodware is unearthed in a water-saturated environment, so it will be put into the water-saturated environment as soon as possible.

The unearthed cultural relics themselves have already broken his original balance.

In order to avoid the rapid oxidation of cultural relics after the balance is broken, it is necessary to immediately change it to a place similar to the original environment for preservation, so as to delay the secondary damage of cultural relics to the greatest extent.

The cultural relics cannot be damaged during the short dry-wet conversion process in the middle.

This is the experience learned from the bloody lessons of countless archaeological pioneers in the past!

When the bed was extracted, the small world under the bed revealed its appearance.

However, something happened that made Kong Jianwen and Chen Han even more puzzled.

Under the bed, there was no sign of Gui!
(End of this chapter)