Period:Tang dynasty Production date:667
Materials:clay, 粘土 (Chinese),
Technique:painted
Dimensions:Height: 36 centimetres Width: 35.50 centimetres
Description:
Clay funerary tablet made of grey clay, probably unfired. The background was first painted black and the inscription was then added it in red.
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Comments:Stein 1928, p.705: “Ast.i.1.03. Inscribed slab of burnt clay, dated AD 667. Surface roughly smoothed, painted black, and inscribed with eleven columns of Chinese characters in red. No guide lines or border; inscription now somewhat dim. [For translation by Dr L. Giles, see App.I, IX]. 14½” x 14”. Pl.LXXV.” Stein 1928, pp.1038-1039: “IX. Ast.ix.1.03. (Transcript and good photograph; see also Pl. LXXV). [Chinese text given, followed by translation into English]Inscription on the tomb of the Lady Ch’ü [pinyin: Qu], wife of Wang…, illegitimate tien-chung chiang-chün [pinyin: dian zhong jiangjun], and hsiao-chi-wei [pinyin: xiao ji wei] under the Imperial (Tang) dynasty.The said gentleman, with personal name Huan-yüeh [pinyin: Huanyue], style, and surname Wang, was a native of the capital city of Kao-ch’ang [pinyin: Gaochang]. In his private life he paid due regard to filial and fraternal obligations, and he served the State with loyalty and good faith. Having succeeded by inheritance to a high office at Court, he was given a post in the Imperial Palace. At the inauguration of of the Great T’ang dynasty, its gracious bounty extended to the highly-placed country officials in His-chou [pinyin: Xizhou], and by Imperial order he was invested with the dignity of the hsiao-chi-wei [pinyin: xiao-ji-wei]. When the Military Governor [of the province] returned to China, knowing that he was well qualified for an active appointment, his energy in affairs being manifest, he sent him as Deputy Magistrate to T’ien-shan Hsien [pinyin: Tianshan xian]; but he lived only one year more, his age then being seventy-four. On the morning of this day he was encoffined and buried north-west of the city, according to the primordial rites.His wife, the Lady Ch’ü [pinyin: Qu], after the early death of her heavenly spouse, at once settled down in her widowhood to train her daughter and instruct her son, and both are now established in life. Suddenly, on the ninth day of the twelfth moon in the second year of Ch’ien-fêng [29 December 667], she died at her private house, aged seventy, and was buried in this tomb on the eleventh day of the same moon of the same year.”
Materials:clay, 粘土 (Chinese),
Technique:painted
Dimensions:Height: 36 centimetres Width: 35.50 centimetres
Description:
Clay funerary tablet made of grey clay, probably unfired. The background was first painted black and the inscription was then added it in red.
IMG
Comments:Stein 1928, p.705: “Ast.i.1.03. Inscribed slab of burnt clay, dated AD 667. Surface roughly smoothed, painted black, and inscribed with eleven columns of Chinese characters in red. No guide lines or border; inscription now somewhat dim. [For translation by Dr L. Giles, see App.I, IX]. 14½” x 14”. Pl.LXXV.” Stein 1928, pp.1038-1039: “IX. Ast.ix.1.03. (Transcript and good photograph; see also Pl. LXXV). [Chinese text given, followed by translation into English]Inscription on the tomb of the Lady Ch’ü [pinyin: Qu], wife of Wang…, illegitimate tien-chung chiang-chün [pinyin: dian zhong jiangjun], and hsiao-chi-wei [pinyin: xiao ji wei] under the Imperial (Tang) dynasty.The said gentleman, with personal name Huan-yüeh [pinyin: Huanyue], style, and surname Wang, was a native of the capital city of Kao-ch’ang [pinyin: Gaochang]. In his private life he paid due regard to filial and fraternal obligations, and he served the State with loyalty and good faith. Having succeeded by inheritance to a high office at Court, he was given a post in the Imperial Palace. At the inauguration of of the Great T’ang dynasty, its gracious bounty extended to the highly-placed country officials in His-chou [pinyin: Xizhou], and by Imperial order he was invested with the dignity of the hsiao-chi-wei [pinyin: xiao-ji-wei]. When the Military Governor [of the province] returned to China, knowing that he was well qualified for an active appointment, his energy in affairs being manifest, he sent him as Deputy Magistrate to T’ien-shan Hsien [pinyin: Tianshan xian]; but he lived only one year more, his age then being seventy-four. On the morning of this day he was encoffined and buried north-west of the city, according to the primordial rites.His wife, the Lady Ch’ü [pinyin: Qu], after the early death of her heavenly spouse, at once settled down in her widowhood to train her daughter and instruct her son, and both are now established in life. Suddenly, on the ninth day of the twelfth moon in the second year of Ch’ien-fêng [29 December 667], she died at her private house, aged seventy, and was buried in this tomb on the eleventh day of the same moon of the same year.”
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