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[Figure] III Ast. ix. 3. (Transcript and very poor photograph.)
[Figure] IV Ast. i. 4. (Transcript and very poor photograph.)

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1034   CHINESE INSCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS   [Appendix I

Inscription on the tomb of the Lady Trang of Chin-chtang 1, wife of the chung-lang Wang Po-yü 2, who at the age of seventy-three was encoffined and buried in this tomb, on the Ling-wei day, the twelfth of the first moon, the first day of which was ping-shên, in the i-yu year, the second of Yen-shoo 3.

III. Ast. ix. 3. (Transcript and very poor photograph.)

On the chia-tzû day, the twentieth of the ninth moon, the first day of which was i-sszi 4, in the mou-tzii year, the fifth of Yen-shou 5, at the age of seventy-two, Wang Po-yü, late Prince of T'ai-yuan, who was first tsran-chiin 6 in the Ministry of Population, became General of the Hall of Tablets, and was promoted to be tien-chung chunglang chiant', was encoffined and buried in this tomb.

Iv. Ast. i. 4. (Transcript and very poor photograph.)

On the twenty-seventh day of the sixth moon, the first day of which is hsin yn, in the ping-wu year, the twentieth of Chang-kuan 4, the Lady Ch'ü, wife of the chi-tu-wei s Chang Yen-hêng 1", [died] at the age of fifty-two, and was encoffined and buried in this tomb on the twenty-eighth day of the sixth moon in the same year.

I A town 5o li to the north of   31H Kua Chou. It

was the site of the Jade Gate at the beginning of the Tang dynasty.

2 See Inscription No. III.

3 24 February, 625. Yen-shou is another year-title of the

dynasty at Kao-ch`ang.

* According to Père Hoang's tables, i-ssû was the second

day of the ninth moon. 6 22 October, 628.

G The Lean-chiin, or Military Councillor, was a person of considerable importance towards the end of the Later Han dynasty. As time went on, he was divested of his military functions.and became to all intents a civil official.

General of the chung-lang in the Palace.'

$ r3 August, 646.

' In the Tang dynasty, this was merely an honourable distinction bestowed as a reward for merit on those who were holding no official post.

'0 See Inscription No. V.