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[[underline]] Chapter VII. [[/underline]] 135. ---------------------------- [[superscript]] (12^[[6]]) [[/superscript]] [[underline]] Art. Asiae [[/underline]], 1928/29, No. 4: Dr. ^[[J]]. C. Ferguson, "Tomb of Ho Ch'ü-ping", pp. 228-232. ----------------------------- the annotations by Yen Shih-ku 顏 區 士 (579-641 A.D.) to chapter 55 of his new edition of the Han History, we have no mention of stone figures at the tomb of Ho Ch'ü-ping. Unfortunately Yen does not tell us when they were set up; but Dr. Ferguson believes that they, together with the monumental tumulus itself, date from a time later, perhaps considerably later, than that of Han Wu Ti. [[superscript]] (12^[[7]]) [[/superscript]] His conclusion is that we -------------------------------- [[superscript]] (12^[[7]]) [[/superscript]] [[underline]] Cf [[/underline]]. Ferguson, [[underline]] Art. Asiae [[/underline]], [[underline]] l.c.[[/underline]], page 232. -------------------------------- can say only that the figures are earlier than the T'ang period. Yen Shih-ku's mention of them affords us, it is true, a [[underline]] terminus ante quem [[/underline]]; but otherwise it is merely negative evidence. It does not prove that the carvings were not set up long before his own time. M. Lartigue has, it would seem, stated the case well in saying that no later ruler would have been at all likely to incur the effort and expense of thus honoring the long deceased servant of a former emperor----particularly one about whom no cult or body of legend had grown up. [[superscript]] (12^[[8]]) [[/superscript]] ----------------------------- [[superscript]] (12^[[8]]) [[/superscript]] Cf. Lartique, [[underline]] Art. Asiae [[/underline]], [[underline]] l.c. [[/underline]], pages 93 [[underline]] sq [[/underline]]. ------------------------------- The indubitably archaic aspect of the figures also rather favors the probability of their having been set up by Han Wu Ti in honor of his youthful general. [[underline]] Possible Contacts with the Steppe Regions. [[/underline]] In view of the unusual manner in which the mound is heaped over with boulders, it is perhaps significant that ancient grave-mounds (kurgans) in Mongolia are reported as covered with stones. [[superscript]] (12^[[9]]) [[/superscript]] It occurred --------------------------- [[superscript]] (12^[[9]]) [[/superscript]] Cf. Waldemar Jochelson, review of G.I. Borovka's "Northern
