刘绥 / Liu Sui (Sishui seal)

Overview

刘绥 / Liu Sui is the normalized name on a silver turtle-knob seal reported from the disturbed context of 大青墩汉墓. This page represents an unresolved archaeological identity, not a confirmed king of 泗水国.

Current Profile

Hanji 346 says personal seals often help identify tomb occupants, then treats this seal as a contradiction because “刘绥” does not appear among the six transmitted Sishui kings. That negative match is useful, but it does not determine who Liu Sui was.

The secure profile is therefore narrow: a name appears on a portable silver seal associated by the episode with a robbed royal tomb. The seal might relate to an attendant, subordinate, secondary burial, substitute burial object, displaced object, or an incompletely recorded member of the royal environment. The supplied note cannot choose among those possibilities.

Key Characteristics

• Name preserved through a silver turtle-knob personal seal rather than a narrative biography.
• Associated in the episode with the robbed Daqingdun royal-tomb context.
• Absent from the supplied list of six Sishui kings.
• Not independently established as a king, principal occupant, court officeholder, or family member.
• Central example of why a named artifact must be interpreted through find context and object type.

Evidence

• Object and reading: Hanji 346 reports a silver turtle-knob seal normalized here as “刘绥.”
• Negative roster match: Hanji 346 says no transmitted Sishui king bears that name.
• Context limit: Hanji 346 also describes extensive robbery and disturbance in the main chamber.

Qualifications

The supplied summary writes “刘隋,” while archaeological and documentary metadata support “刘绥”; the normalized reading remains tied to the same reported object. A personal name on a seal is not equivalent to a royal title, and the note does not supply a complete find record, epigraphic analysis, metallurgical study, or accepted scholarly identification. The page therefore must not be used as evidence for an otherwise unknown seventh Sishui king.

What Changed

• Created a bounded identity page for the seal name without converting uncertainty into royal biography.
• Normalized the transcript’s “刘隋” to “刘绥.”
• Listed competing contextual explanations instead of selecting an unsupported occupant identity.

Relationships

• 大青墩汉墓 / Daqingdun Han Tomb - disturbed archaeological context from which the seal is reported.
• 泗水国 / Sishui Kingdom (Western Han) - royal polity whose transmitted king list does not include Liu Sui.
• Archaeological Interpretation Under Sparse Evidence - method requiring object type, provenance, and context before personal identification.