"Hey, I heard that you dug up the seals of the three ladies?"

Kong Jianwen swaggered into the east room with his hands behind his back.

Seeing him coming, Professor Li laughed and scolded: "If you are not busy in the back room, why are you here to join in the fun?"

"Oh, we should let our young men exercise more, especially the archaeologists from the Guangzhou Institute. They lack archaeological experience in such large tombs." Kong Jianwen waved his hand and said indifferently.

The condition of the back room is very good.

The back room is slightly square in plan, 1.8 meters wide from east to west, and 2 meters long from north to south. It is separated from the main room by only two stone pillars, which serve as doorways.

In terms of area, it is only one-third the size of the east room.

In fact, the archaeological team led by Kong Jianwen was unable to fully enter and excavate.

Therefore, compared with the two side rooms, the excavation work in the back room is the easiest.

"The back room is an important warehouse for storing food and placing cooking utensils and storage containers."

"The funerary objects inside are mainly cooking utensils, storage utensils and wash utensils."

"I took a random look and found tripods, pans, ovens, tubes, basins, pottery urns, pots and other items."

"Most of them are filled with food, and there are many animal bones, fruits, and traces of carbonized residues of crops."

"These things are expensive, but they are very simple to clean. They are all common utensils."

"So I let it go and let my boys clean it up and gain more experience."

As Kong Jianwen said.

Although there are many funerary objects in the back room, most of them are common cultural relics. Basically, as long as the tombs before the Han Dynasty are excavated, these artifacts will definitely be unearthed.

Maybe here in Guangzhou, these things are rare items and were very rare before.

But in the archaeological province of the Central Plains, the amount of these things unearthed is enough to fill several warehouses.

Dings, pans, basins, jars, cooking utensils, storage vessels and wash basins from the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties are simply standard equipment for noble tombs.

It's really not that rare.

It’s just because Guangdong started to be developed after the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty was another transition point from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.

This means that such large bronze cookers are indeed rare in Guangdong.

Things that Kong Jianwen was tired of seeing were all rare things in the eyes of his few researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology.

In this case, he simply let it go and let his people discover it.

In this way, he can still get a good reputation.

Nowadays, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences still cares about feathers very much, hoping to leave a good reputation.

Otherwise, now that archaeological forces in various places are becoming more and more abundant, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences will not be involved in any important projects discovered.

Over time, wouldn’t the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences become a department of elderly care?

This is not possible!

Therefore, it is necessary for the local archaeological institute to be as good as the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

At least we have to keep a distance from those hungry wolves in Peking University Cultural Museum!

"How is it? How is the situation here?" Kong Jianwen asked casually.

Professor Li replied without raising his head: "Don't you already know that three lady seals were unearthed?"

"This east chamber is the hiding place of the deceased wife of the owner of the tomb. There are many jade and stone tools buried with her, and most of them are exquisitely shaped and beautifully carved."

"It can be seen that most of them should be jade pendants worn by martyred wives."

To be martyred, actually means to be buried in a more pleasant way.

And making jade pendants is also very interesting.

A jade pendant is generally composed of jade bis, jade huangs, jade rings, and jade pendants.

but!

When used as jade pendants, jade bis and jade huangs play a decorative role rather than a symbol of power.

Let's put it this way.

Placing individual jade pieces on and under the tomb owner is a special burial system that can only be used by high-ranking nobles.

Generally, except for princes, kings and emperors, other nobles will not directly use a single jade bi or jade to cover their bodies.

but!

If jade bis and jade huangs are combined with jade pendants to form a set of jade pendants, then these jade articles will change from symbolic significance to decorative significance.

For example, the "Jingxiang Order" in the front room was also buried with a set of jade pendants, which were also composed of jade bis.

He was a eunuch, and not the highest among eunuchs, just a middle-level eunuch.

According to etiquette, it is absolutely impossible for him to enjoy a jade burial!

It is even more impossible to use jade to cover the body, which is an advanced burial style.

However, the jade pendant is not included in it.

His jade pendant may have been given by the King of Nanyue, or even because he wanted to be buried with him, so he was given this jade pendant for burial.

In this way, it is not considered a violation of etiquette.

Similarly, these wives of Zhao and Hu who died in the martyrdom will definitely not be able to enjoy jade burials.

There is no single jade biscuit or jade huang that is not composed of jade pendants. They were found in the east chamber.

However, they were buried with several pieces of jade pendants.

When these groups of jade pendants are in good condition, they should be woven together and hung around the waist for decoration.

Among them are a three-phoenix scroll wall and a three-dragon scroll wall found in the head box of the main tomb chamber, which can be regarded as "couple models".

Presumably, it was also a reward from the owner of the tomb.

Its owner must be very popular with the tomb owner Zhao Hu, so there is such a couple's model.

It is estimated that its owner wore this jade pendant every day during his lifetime to show his favor.

"Only three lady seals were found?"

Kong Jianwen nodded: "So, Zhao Hu should have only three wives who died?"

Just when Professor Li was about to agree.

Chen Han, who was immersed in cleaning up in the north-central part of the room, suddenly shouted: "No!"

"More than three!"

"I found another seal!"

"It's still the golden seal!"

With a flick of the eye, the members of the archaeological team who were cleaning up elsewhere quickly came to Chen Han's side.

Professor Li and Kong Jianwen also came over immediately.

"What seal?"

"The right lady's seal!"

"The seal surface is square, with the four characters "Right Lady's Seal" engraved in seal script, and there are sidebars and cross borders."

"The format of the seal is the same as the three gilt copper seals discovered before. They are all turtle buttons with a hollow belly. The size is similar, but the material is different."

After hearing Chen Han's introduction, Professor Li took a deep look at the seal on his hand and sighed: "The golden seal!"

"As expected, South Vietnam also respects the right!"

According to the system of the Western Han Dynasty, only those at the level of princes and kings can use the gold seal.

That is to say, only the princes and queens can use gold to make seals, and other wives of princes and kings can only use copper seals.

Since the Nanyue Kingdom had always been arrogant, Zhao Hu himself made a jade seal that could only be used by the emperor.

So theoretically, his head wife, the queen, should also use jade to make her seal, not her seal.

Then, it is normal for the right lady, the second person in the harem under the empress, to use gold that could only be used by the princes and kings of the central Western Han Dynasty to make the seal.

The Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty probably did the same thing.

After all, according to the official statement, the wife of the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty was more powerful than the princes and kings, so naturally she used the gold seal.

Having only found three copper lady seals before, Professor Li thought that Zhao Hu only dared to tamper with his own seals and did not do so in the harem.

Now it seems that he has also gone too far when it comes to his harem wives.

However, just like what he did to himself, he overstepped, but only a little.

Only the right lady with the highest status arbitrarily used the gold seal, while the other ladies still used the copper seal.
Chapter completed!