Chapter 266: Cleaning the Lord's Coffin
The cleaning of the main coffin will undoubtedly take a long time.
When the outer coffin lid was opened and the gold was seen, the archaeologists at the scene were naturally looking forward to what treasures were still hidden in the main coffin.
Their expectations were not disappointed.
"The location of the lacquer box is over here." Kong Jianwen stretched out his finger and pointed to an area in the main coffin: "This is the edge of the lacquer box." ”
"This box is rectangular on top."
Chen Han kept nodding beside him.
The burial goods in the main coffin were pressed very compactly.
Everything was like mud, compacted.
However, no matter how solid the pressure is, the outlines of various different items can still be seen clearly.
Especially for such a square thing as the lacquer box, the color of the box is obviously different from the color of other burial goods, and you can see it at a glance.
This kind of cultural relics that are easiest to see are also the first things to be cleaned and excavated.
Since the outline can be determined, it is possible to extract the entire outline according to the general outline.
"You see, there are some gold objects pressed down here, and it's not easy to extract when you extract them." Kong Jianwen said again.
In addition to the gold cakes and horseshoe gold, there are also some gold objects made of gold in the main coffin.
These gold objects have been deformed because they have been pressed under other burial objects, and it is impossible to tell what they were originally.
However, because of their good ductility, these gold objects have not broken or broken, at least they remain intact as a whole.
It is difficult to carry out the follow-up restoration work.
How to restore a flattened gold object to its original appearance.
I guess it might take magic to make it happen...
After spending two days, the archaeological team roughly determined the overlapping relationship between the topmost cultural relics, and with the help of modern instruments and equipment, the scanning and positioning were completed, and finally began the stage of extracting cultural relics.
There is nothing mysterious about the method of extracting cultural relics.
It's the old routine that Chen Han and the others extracted from the gold box under the bed.
Using plastic sheeting + iron bars + wooden strips as support, the cultural relics that have a superimposed relationship with each other are extracted as a whole.
In fact, it is to draw lattices in the main coffin, and in each lattice, there are several cultural relics superimposed on each other.
Then a lattice, a lattice, extracted the cultural relics together with the silk fabric corruption in the coffin.
It's a delicate job, but it's not complicated.
The first thing to extract is the lacquered box.
Because the lacquer box has been dispersed, it is necessary to insert the pallet from all directions around it, and then borrow the pallet as a support, and then drag the entire lacquer box up.
Three or four archaeologists worked together, one supported and one inserted the pallet inside, and after repeating this several times, all four or five plastic pallets were inserted into the bottom of the lacquer box.
Everyone carefully held the four corners of these pallets, and it can be said that at a slow speed of ten seconds and one centimeter, little by little, the lacquer box, which had been sleeping in the main coffin for more than 2,000 years, was slowly lifted up from the coffin.
With the lacquer box being lifted, an exclamation also sounded in the mouths of the surrounding archaeologists.
"There's something down there?"
"So big?"
"This is jade!"
I saw that with the holding up of the lacquer box, the space under the superposition at the bottom of the lacquer box was gradually revealed in front of everyone.
It is obvious that under the lacquer box is a very large piece of jade.
Zhuang Yunpeng was quick with his hands, and immediately took a soft ruler and measured it in the air.
"This jade is very big, according to the Han ruler, it should be one foot two!"
"It's relatively well preserved, and the jade quality is also very exquisite!"
"But it's a pity that it's broken in half into two pieces!"
The Han system of one foot two is about 30 centimeters today.
The 30-centimeter jade bi has to be the size of a basin for daily use!
Even in modern times, this is a very rare and precious piece of large-scale jade!
Chen Han and other archaeologists hurriedly started to clean up the scattered pieces of lacquer boxes scattered next to the jade bi.
After the other pieces are cleaned up, the whole piece of jade is completely presented.
As Zhuang Yunpeng said, probably because of the stacking, there was a crack in the middle of this piece of jade, which divided it into two pieces, left and right.
However, the crack is very neat, and there is no broken jade around, indicating that when it is broken, it is directly cracked in an instant, and the degree of damage is not large.
This is indeed relatively well-preserved.
"Come, Xiao Chen, get another stick!"
A command interrupted Chen Han's gaze admiring Yubi.
Kong Jianwen, who was extracting a wooden box, beckoned Chen Han for help.
He hurriedly took out a bamboo skewer from his pocket and handed it to Kong Jianwen.
Picking up the bamboo stick, Kong Jianwen inserted it into the corner of the wooden box he was extracting, and with a slight force, half of the wooden box was cocked, revealing the situation below.
"It's connected, it's hard to extract, you have to separate the bottom."
After muttering, Kong Jianwen operated two wooden sticks with both hands, and divided them by two, separating the place under the wooden box from the other cultural relics.
His operation, Chen Han was very useful.
You have to be a teacher, professional!
As the plastic plate is inserted, the wooden box is extracted, and the situation under the wooden box is also revealed.
"Jin Bang!"
Gold plate, see gold plate again!
Chen Han, who was already a little numb to the gold, couldn't even bring up the feeling of excitement, he only felt bored.
After a period of busyness, several gold plates were extracted again, and along with this wooden box, they were sent to the temporary preservation room next to the main coffin room.
In the cultural preservation room, several cultural relics conservators wearing white coats are also carrying out an exciting activity.
Open the blind box!
A lacquer box, a wooden box, and two blind boxes are filled with cultural relics, and several cultural conservation personnel are very curious.
Lacquer boxes and wooden boxes are still relatively easy to open, after all, wood is not easy to stick to other things.
It didn't take much effort for the two boxes to be opened.
However, the cultural relics inside are not so surprising, they can only be said to be expected.
The two boxes are full of jade.
In the large lacquer box, there were three jade bibs with a diameter of about ten centimeters, which were arranged horizontally.
In a small round wooden box, there was a jade bi.
All four jade bibs were shattered, breaking into multiple pieces, but most of them maintained their shape.
Holding special tweezers, pieces of broken jade pieces were clamped up and put into the special cleaning solution next to them.
These pieces of jade are very exquisitely made, and they are densely covered with bean-like protruding lines, which are very beautiful.
However, looking at the texture of the jade, it is all green jade, not white Hetian jade.
It seems that even Liu He, who can get Hetian jade from the Western Regions, can't be extravagant enough to use Hetian jade as jade.
After all, a piece of jade should be at least ten centimeters in diameter, and the largest one is even twenty or thirty centimeters.
Obviously, such a large primitive jade block is difficult to transport from XJ.
"Hey, I can only say that it is expected." The cultural protection staff was happy again, but a little disappointed.