The gilt silver ewer with decorative patterns unearthed from a Han-and-Jin period tomb at Shangsunjiazhai in Datong,Qinghai Province is a valuable object to researching into early Sino-foreign cultural exchange. Throu...The gilt silver ewer with decorative patterns unearthed from a Han-and-Jin period tomb at Shangsunjiazhai in Datong,Qinghai Province is a valuable object to researching into early Sino-foreign cultural exchange. Through a comparative study of this article and the West Asian,South Russian and Mongolian finds identical with it in decorative pattern and similar in making technology it can be concluded that this ewer must be a product in the Hellenistic Parthian style made no later than the AD 1st century. In the eastward diffusion of this decorative style and making technology,the Eurasian steppe road controlled by the Sarmatians and Xiongnu played the key role. The ewer under discussion may have been made in some place of Central Asia,and its last user must have belonged to the Lushui-Hu differentiated from Xiongnu.展开更多
文摘The gilt silver ewer with decorative patterns unearthed from a Han-and-Jin period tomb at Shangsunjiazhai in Datong,Qinghai Province is a valuable object to researching into early Sino-foreign cultural exchange. Through a comparative study of this article and the West Asian,South Russian and Mongolian finds identical with it in decorative pattern and similar in making technology it can be concluded that this ewer must be a product in the Hellenistic Parthian style made no later than the AD 1st century. In the eastward diffusion of this decorative style and making technology,the Eurasian steppe road controlled by the Sarmatians and Xiongnu played the key role. The ewer under discussion may have been made in some place of Central Asia,and its last user must have belonged to the Lushui-Hu differentiated from Xiongnu.
