Miho funerary couch

Miho funerary couch
Turkic horsemen with long hair on the Miho funerary couch. Circa 570 CE. Northern Dynasties, China.[1][2]
CreatedCirca 570 CE.[3][4]
DiscoveredNorthern China
Taiyuan is located in Continental Asia
Taiyuan
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is located in China
Taiyuan
Taiyuan

The Miho funerary couch is a Northern Dynasties period (439-589 CE) funeral monument to a Sogdian nobleman and official in northern China.[1] The tomb is now located in the collections of the Miho Museum.[1] Its structure is similar to that of the Anyang funerary bed.[1] It has been dated to circa 570 CE.[3] It is rumoured to have been excavated in Taiyuan in the 1980s, before being sold on the American art market.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d Inagaki, Hajime. Galleries and Works of the MIHO MUSEUM. Miho Museum. pp. 120–124.
  2. ^ Yatsenko, Sergey A. (August 2009). "Early Turks: Male Costume in the Chinese Art". Transoxiana. 14.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference FG141 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Late 6th to early 7th centuries in "Relief Carvings from a Funerary Couch - MIHO MUSEUM". www.miho.jp.
  5. ^ GRENET, Frantz (2020). Histoire et cultures de l'Asie centrale préislamique. Paris, France: Collège de France. p. 324. ISBN 978-2-7226-0516-9.