Chapter 150: An Official Seal!
The next day, October 13, after discussing with the Guangzhou and Guangdong archaeological institutes, everyone decided to remove the capping stone slab on the front room.
All of them have cracked into four petals, and two of them have also sunk by ten centimeters, resulting in a serious dislocation difference, and there is a risk of collapse at any time.
A large stone more than three meters long and 1.8 meters wide, even if it is divided into four pieces, will kill people if it collapses.
On the same day, several archaeological institutes each sent a person to squeeze into the front room of the tomb again, and roughly measured the position of several artifacts such as copper tripods and clay pots that exposed the soil surface, and temporarily took them out.
In addition, a layer of plastic film was laid on the indoor floor as a septum, and dozens of sacks filled with sawdust were stacked into a square pillar in the room to support the broken and dislocated top cover stone for safety.
The next day, the construction team found to excavate all the remaining little rammed earth layer on the top cover stone, so that the top cover stone was all exposed, and then the crane was used to start the lifting work.
First, the door stone that has been broken into two on the tomb door is lifted, then the two stone tomb doors are lifted, and finally the ceiling cover stone is lifted.
Because there was a sack under the top cover stone first, the top cover stone, which was broken into four, was quickly lifted away safely without causing a bad collapse.
Everything went smoothly, and when the door and the roof of the Frontrooms were removed, the entire Frontrooms were completely exposed to the surface, allowing for easy excavations.
On October 15th, all the sacks used to support safety in the front room were removed, and Professor Li took Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Lin Ya into the field to start cleaning and excavating the accumulation plans and artifacts in the front room.
Kong Jianwen took the others and began to survey and map the ruins and relics of the Frontrooms.
That is, to draw floor plans and structural drawings.
Chen Han: They cleaned up some utensils, and the others immediately took them away to take pictures and survey.
After clearing out all the fills that poured in from the cemetery, the situation in the front room gradually became clear.
The arrangement of burial objects in the antechamber is relatively simple.
The first thing to be discovered was a model of a lacquered wooden car on the west side of the room.
And on the east side, some remnants of a coffin were also found.
There is a slab ash mark under the stone wall on the east side of the room, which is about 1.8 long from north to south and about 1 meter wide from east to west.
In the gray marks of this board, some red and black residual patent leather were also found.
It can be determined that this is the place where the coffins of the martyrs are located.
It's just that this coffin has all decayed, only a trace of rotten wood remains, and there are no bones in the coffin, which is obviously rotten together.
The owner of the tomb could not have been in the Frontrooms, and it is clear that this should have been a martyr's coffin as well.
Three coffins were found one after another, and all the coffins and bones were rotten, which is very pity and regrettable.
"This is the worst-preserved tomb I've ever been involved in excavating." Chen Han sighed.
Generally speaking, human corpses, although tissues and organs are easily decomposed, but the bones are very hard.
Under normal circumstances, it can be maintained for at least 5,000 years, and after 5,000 years, fossils will gradually form locally.
Otherwise, where did those Homo sapiens skulls come from?
It's just that this is normal.
Under abnormal circumstances, such as the present one, it is buried by a severely acidic soil, which accelerates the decomposition of the substance.
The coffins and bones of these martyrs are gone.
However, acidic soil is not a panacea, which is good news.
At least among the cultural relics, except for the lacquerware, the remaining burial goods are not decayed.
Chen Han followed the traces of the ash marks on the board, searched in the "coffin", and soon found an iron tool at the north and south ends.
At the north end, there is an iron scraper, and at the south end is a ring-headed knife.
After discovering that there was a person in the front room who was martyred, the first thing everyone had to determine was the identity of the person.
The identity here is not about what his name is, but about figuring out what he did during his lifetime.
Generally speaking, those who are martyred as human beings are slaves or servants of the tomb owner.
But the servants were also divided into positions, like the one outside the tomb gate, who was a coachman.
The one at the end of the slope of the tomb is a samurai.
And the martyrdom of the man who was placed in the front room and guarded the door to the main tomb for the owner of the tomb obviously also had a special identity.
It's just a ring-head knife and an iron scraper, which can't prove his identity.
Chen Han buried his head and continued to search.
Soon, he noticed that between these two iron tools, there seemed to be a group of jade objects placed vertically!
"Professor Li, Senior Brother Zhuang! Come and see! ”
"There seems to be a group of jade artifacts here!"
Chen Han took the brush and gently brushed away a layer of soil, and a round jade bi appeared in front of his eyes.
And in this jade bib, about ten centimeters away in a straight line, a half-exposed jade ring can be faintly seen.
Professor Li, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Lin Ya all quickly gathered next to Chen Han and followed him to clean up quickly.
In the space of about 1.2 meters between the ring head knife and the iron scraper, they quickly cleared out a group of jade ornaments.
This group and accessories form a straight line from south to north, and there are a total of three jade rings, two jade rings, two jade rings and a gilded copper ring.
"The three pieces of jade are arranged in order from small to large, and between the second and third pieces of jade are separated by a gold and copper ring."
"Under the 3 bi are two jade and two jade rings on top of each other."
"The two rings are the same size, and the two rings are one size each, the small ring is in the north, and the big ring is in the south, and the same is pressed on top of the two huang, which is the same as the order of the three jade bibi from small to large."
"Judging from the unearthed location, this group of jade ornaments should be covered on the body of the deceased."
Kong Jianwen, who had been paying attention to their excavation work on the sidelines, immediately recorded the situation of this string of jade accessories.
This is obviously a string of ornamental jade ornaments, and when intact, it should have been knotted with a rope belt.
It's just that the ropes used to tie the knots have all decayed, and only these jade accessories remain.
"Hey, look, next to the jade bi, is there anything else?!"
Lin Ya's exclamation made Professor Li and Chen Han, who had just cleaned up this group of jade ornaments, nervous again.
They both looked around the three pieces of jade.
Soon, the two of them saw two distinctive protrusions at the same time.
Professor Li picked up the brush and cleaned up the dust next to the jade in the middle.
Soon, a bronze mirror was cleaned out.
The situation is not very good, it has also been badly corroded, and it has been broken, and the button on the back of the copper mirror has been missing.
However, from the surviving parts, it can still be seen that this bronze mirror is not ordinary.
The main pattern of the bronze mirror is the three dragon patterns, and the cloud and thunder patterns are lined with the ground.
And the dragon on the tattoo opens its mouth and sticks out its tongue, its head is close to the round button, the dragon's body is twisted into a loop, and the tail is folded into a square shape.
Finally, the outer edge of the dragon pattern is also decorated with a circle of thin diagonal lines.
The style is very exquisite, and the workmanship is very detailed, not even like a person can have a martyr's own utensils.
I'm afraid that the identity of this person's martyrdom is still very unusual!
And Chen Han also found a square inch seal next to the northernmost piece of jade, which is also the largest, in the first piece.
The seal is cast in copper.
The style and shape are typical of the late Qin and early Han dynasties.
The Indian style is square, fish button.
There is a four-character seal inscription engraved on the printing surface.
Chen Han carefully turned over the seal, swept all the dirt and ash on it with a brush, carefully identified these four words, and read softly:
"Jingxiang Lingyin."
"This is an official seal?!"