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Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang : vol.1 |
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Miran, Grave 3. Plan and section. |
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Grave 3.
The coffin in this grave, lying only 0.35 m. under the ground, was most curious,
consisting of a hollow trunk that totally enveloped the skeleton. The upper part of
the skeleton was disturbed, as if the deceased had been forcibly turned round in the
coffin in such a way that the spinal column had been broken, and the cranium dis-
placed. The trunk was open at both ends, and contained no funeral deposits. Fig. 52.
A similar coffin from Qum-darya (cf. p. 55) had both ends closed with wooden
lids.
Grave 4
was of the same construction as Grave 1, the bones were displaced and the cranium
broken. It contained nothing else and was apparently plundered.
The heads of the skeletons were placed in the following directions: N 25°E,
S 60°W, N 40°E, S 45°W.
From Grave 1 the whole skeleton was taken, and from Grave 2 and 3 the crani-
ums. They have been handed over to Prof. G. Backman for anthropometric exa-
mination.
Unfortunately the objects found in Graves 1 and 2 are too poor to allow of any
definite chronological determination, but the comb Pl. 38: 18 is of the common Han
type used in Lou-lan, and the silk fragments, too, might very well be of that age.
It is therefore likely, though far from proved, that these graves belonged to the
people inhabiting Miran in the Lou-lan time. The older Miran ruins date, as shown
by Stein, from the third and fourth centuries A. D., but there are also two temples
from the fifth century or a somewhat later date. The fortress was occupied during
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