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
Sogdian tombs in China
Anyang funerary bed550–577 CE
Tomb of Kang Ye571 CE
Miho funerary couchc. 570 CE
Tomb of An Jia579 CE
Tomb of Wirkak580 CE
Tomb of An Bei589 CE
Tomb of Yu Hong592 CE
Kooros couch557–618 CE
Tianshui tomb581–624 CE

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.