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[[underlined]] Chapter IX. [[/underlined]] 187. a much corroded bronze object that had apparently once been a garment-hook. [[superscript]] (175) [[/superscript]] The floor of this same central compartment was covered with a -------------------------- [[superscript]] (174) [[/superscript]] Our workmen declared that these lamps had formed part of the furniture of a T'u Ti Miao or shrine to the [[underlined]] Genius loci [[/underlined]] that had stood on the Lei Ku T'ai about twenty years before. We found nearly all of them, however, embedded in the laminated clay, and there seemed no reason for thinking them anything else than Han productions. The type has nevertheless persisted, almost unchanged as far as form goes, until very recent times, and perhaps it does so still in remote parts of China. I have myself seen in actual use lamps of almost identical character save that their exteriors, unlike those of their ancient prototypes, were covered rather thickly with a dark green glaze. -------------------------- [[superscript]] (175) [[/superscript]] Chinese garment-hooks, usually of bronze and sometimes inlaid with turquoise or with designs in the precious metals, have by ignorant or careless writers often been wrongly termed "fibulae". For such misuse of language there can be no excuse. The true fibula, though almost a type-object (exceedingly useful for relative and even absolute dating) in some periods and places in the Occident, has as far as my knowledge goes never been found in China. ------------------------------ thin layer of red pigment (haematite?), of which we found there a small lump also. In the more northern of the two longitudinal divisions forming the easternmost chamber in Tomb II was a small circular bronze mirror which Mr. Ch'iu declared to be of a well known Han type, although he said that it survived until much later. The greenish patina covering it bore a textile impression, as though at the interment it had been wrapped in cloth or placed in a bag. Near the mirror, on the floor of the same compartment, was a small sheet of mica with parallel sides, 25 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]] long by 13 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]] wide---in all probability, according to Mr. Ch'iu again, a fragment from a woman's headdress. We found here also a gold ring, a mere circlet without bezel or setting and so small that we felt sure it must have belonged to a lady.
