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SUMMARY:NYU Shanghai Lecture: A Tale of Two Tombs
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DESCRIPTION:Burial goods and an epitaph recently excavated from two co
 ntemporary Tang-style tombs in central Mongolia provide a rich record 
 of political and cultural interactions between Tang and Turkic politic
 al elites in the mid-seventh century. One tomb contained the Chinese-l
 anguage epitaph of a Tang ally\, Pugu Yitu (635-678) and the scattered
  remains of some grave goods left by looters. The other tomb\, only el
 even kilometers away at Ulaan Khermiin\, lacked an epitaph\, but was u
 ndisturbed\, retaining a full complement of rich burial objects. Thoug
 h the epitaph’s rhetoric provides a conventional Tang-centered narra
 tive of Pugu’s subservience to the dynasty\, a careful examination o
 f the epitaph and contents of the two tombs provides evidence of recip
 rocity and cultural compromises in the political relationship. On one 
 hand\, the design of the tombs\, funerary ritual described in the epit
 aph\, and many burial goods were typical of the Tang. On the other han
 d\, both funerals have signs of local practices and tastes including c
 remations\, a gold hoard in the coffin of the Ulaan Khermiin tomb\, an
 d some unusual wooden and terracotta figurines.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
CLASS:PUBLIC
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