Shang period bronzes from Xingan

Shang period bronzes from Xingan ( Chinese  新 干 商代 铜器 群 , Pinyin Xīngān Shāngdài tóngqì qún ) are on the Gan River in Xingan in the Chinese province of Jiangxi in a tomb from the time of the Shang Dynasty . Bronzes discovered at the archaeological site Dayangzhou in Dayangzhou ( 大洋洲 ) in Xingan County, Jiangxi Province, China . The grave is dated to the 12th century BC. Dated.

The site was excavated in 1989. Hundreds of bronze and jade objects were discovered, which provide interesting information about the bronze and sepulchral culture of the aristocratic class of the Yangtze Valley during the Shang Dynasty . 1,361 relics were unearthed: bronzes, pottery, stone ware and jade, including 475 ritual bronzes (over half of the ding vessel type ). The Ding vessels from Xingan roughly correspond to those of the late Zhengzhou-Erligang period (cf. Erligang culture ).

Most of the artifacts are housed in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum.

See also

• Panlongcheng
• Sanxingdui

literature

• Henan Sheng Wenwu Gongzuodui: Zhengzhou Erligang (The Erligang site in Zhengzhou). Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe 1959.
• Jiangxisheng Wenwu kaogu Yanjiusuo, Jiangxisheng Bowuguan, and Xinganxian Bowuguan, 江西省 文物 考古 研究所 ， 江西省 博物館 ， 新 干 博物館, ed .: Xingan Shangdai Damu 新 干 商代 大 墓 (The Great Shang Tomb of Xingan). Wenwu Chubanshe, 1997.
• Yang Xiaoneng (Ed.): The Golden Age of Chinese Archeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People's Republic of China. Washington 1999, ISBN 0-300-08132-4 .
• Bagley, Robert W. "An Early Bronze Age Tomb in Jiangxi Province." Orientations 24 (July, 1993), pp. 20-36.
• Chinese National Museum: Shangdai Jiangnan: Jiangxi Xingan Dayangzhou chutu wenwu jicui. (The Shang Dynasty in southern China: cultural goods from the excavations of Dayangzhou, Xingang, Jiangxi)

reference books

• Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5

Web links

• Xingan Tomb - English
• The Royal Tetrapod Ding and the Royal Sacrifice 商王 的 四 足 鼎 与 鼎 的 祭祀 by Elizabeth Childs-Johnson (DOC file; 189 kB)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Often not quite correctly spelled "Xin'gan" or "Xin'gan". The spelling 新淦 is the old Chinese spelling of the place name
2. ↑ Dàyángzhōu yízhǐ 大洋洲 遗址 Dayangzhou site; also known as the Shang time site of Dayangzhou (Dayangzhou Shangdai yizhi 大洋洲 商代 遗址 ).
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Coordinates: 27 ° 54 '36 "  N , 115 ° 27' 21.6"  E