大青墩汉墓 / Daqingdun Han Tomb

Overview

大青墩汉墓 / Daqingdun Han Tomb is the robbed monumental Western Han burial that Hanji 346 identifies with the royal cemetery of 泗水国.

Current Profile

The episode describes a surviving mound about twelve meters high, paired side chambers, an outer storage chamber, and a main chamber containing one outer coffin structure and two coffins. Figurines, wooden horses, bronze vessels, gilded fittings, jewelry, incense equipment, and a decorated crossbow trigger establish elite scale and funerary display.

Robbery limits what the tomb can resolve. One coffin was damaged, the main chamber was reached through a precise robbery opening, and portable objects may have been removed or displaced. The “泗水王冢” and “王冢” board labels strongly support royal-cemetery attribution, while the 刘绥 seal prevents a simple equation between cemetery, principal occupant, and the six transmitted kings.

Key Characteristics

• Large surviving mound and wooden-chamber arrangement presented as consistent with vassal-king rank.
• Outer storage area and side chambers containing ceremonial figures, horses, bronze vessels, and other grave goods.
• Main chamber described as one outer enclosure with two coffins, interpreted in the episode as a paired burial.
• Multiple robbery traces, including direct access to the main chamber and damage to one coffin.
• Board labels reading “泗水王冢” and “王冢,” the strongest direct evidence for the tomb’s institutional identity.
• Silver “刘绥” seal whose meaning is not resolved by the surviving context.

Evidence

• Rank and layout: Hanji 346 describes mound height, paired side chambers, outer storage, two coffins, and rich furnishings.
• Disturbance: Hanji 346 reports robbery openings, damaged western coffin structures, and valuable objects remaining near the intrusion path.
• Institutional attribution: Hanji 346 reports the chamber-board labels “泗水王冢” and “王冢.”
• Occupant uncertainty: Hanji 346 reports the unmatched “刘绥” silver turtle-knob seal.

Qualifications

The page preserves the episode’s account rather than replacing a technical excavation report. The exact dimensions, board-label production technique, artifact classifications, findspots, coffin sexing, robbery sequence, and status interpretation require direct archaeological documentation. Valuable objects near a robbery path do not by themselves prove why the robbers left, and paired coffins do not by themselves prove a married couple.

What Changed

• Added a canonical site page separating physical context from occupant inference.
• Identified the board labels as stronger evidence for royal-cemetery status than tomb scale alone.
• Made robbery and displacement part of the identity-evidence boundary.

Relationships

• 泗水国 / Sishui Kingdom (Western Han) - polity whose royal burial context is named on the chamber boards.
• 刘绥 / Liu Sui (Sishui seal) - portable identity object whose relation to the main burial remains unresolved.
• Archaeological Interpretation Under Sparse Evidence - framework for ranking architecture, inscriptions, artifacts, and missing context by what they can establish.