The Liuzhuang Han portrait stone tomb is located atop the hilly terrain between Liuzhuang Village and Hougang Village in the suburbs of Tanghe County.Two tombs were found while extending Fengshui Road.The Nanyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the two burials.M1 and M2 were constructed out of both bricks and stones.They were of two main chambers and two side chambers,with two doors,the form of which were unprecedented in the Nanyang area.According to the shape of the tomb,the pattern of the portrait and the funerary artifacts,the burial should date to the late Western Han Dynasty.Burial M1 and Burial M2 should be of officials or powerful families.
Han portrait stone tombportrait patternlate Western Han Dynasty