On Two Color-painted Gilt Bas-relief Stone-Bed Front-Panels Repatriated from Overseas
This thesis presents in detail two blocks of color-painted gilt bas-relief stone-bed front-panels repatriated by Manhattan District Attorney's Office,New York,USA identifying the human-faced eagle-footed figures in the central motif of both as the Spirit of Zoroastrian Srōš protecting the sacred fire altar to stand for the Zoroastrian symbolism as the result of the contrast analysis in pattern and design with the images on the stone beds or coffins of same type unearthed somewhere else,such as the Northern-Zhou An Jia's stone-screen in the northward suburb of Xi'an in 2000,the stone coffin of Shi Jun's tomb next to Anjia's tomb in 2003,the Sui-dynasty Yu Hong's stone coffin in Taiyuan of Shanxi Province in 1999,the Northern-Dynasty stone bed screen purchased by Mixiu Art Museum of Japan in 199os and the relief-carving unearthed at the Northern-Qi tomb in Anyang of Henan Province in the 20th century.Judging from the clans'relatives of An Jia,Shi Jun and Yu Hong,it is suggested that the masters of the funerary stone beds be the Chinese Sogdian with Zoroastrianism faith who serve as Safu,the chief of the Sogdian community or settlement in or around by Yecheng,the capital of the Northern-Qi Dynasty.
Sogdian stone-bed of coffinAn JiaShi JunYu Hongthe spirit of Zoroastrianism
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