A Study on the Identities of Women in the Mural Tomb of Cuizhuyuan,Qujiang,Xi'an:Centred on Costumes,Utensils and Iconography
The murals unearthed from the Cuizhuyuan Tomb in Qujiang,Xi'an,are well-preserved,with complete contents and unique styles,and are an important source of information for the study of funeral customs as well as material culture in the Western Han Dynasty.Regrettably,the existing research is still divided on identifying the five women in the eastern and southern walls of the mural.Therefore,the article systematically verifies women's identities from the per-spectives of costumes,utensils,and image motifs by cross-checking and comparing them with relevant literature and unearthed artifacts of the Han Dynasty.It is believed that the source of the motif of the figure paintings on the side wall of Cuizhuyuan Tomb is the painting on silk of No.9 Han Tomb in Jinqueshan,as well as the painting on silk of No.4 Han Tomb in Min'an,Linyi,and the combination of the figure identities also continues the image of"Nobleman-attendant"in the motif.The image of the screen on the east wall bears the symbol of the status of the"nobleman"in the image;combined with the character's clothing,and utensils,it is assumed that the real identity of the ten women,including the figures of the east wall,figure three,figure four,and the figures of the south wall,figure three,figure four,figure five,were all slave girls.
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