File:Pottery tower 6.JPG

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Summary

A Chinese mid-Eastern-Han Dynasty (25–220 CE) ceramic architectural model of a fortified multistory manor house with a covered bridge extended to a smaller watchtower. This model was excavated by archaeologists in 1993 from an Eastern-Han tomb at Jiazuo, Henan Province, China. The main building is 192 cm tall, and has a courtyard with gate-towers, an exterior stairway leading from the courtyard to the front balcony of the first level, and four sets of rooftops. This information is taken from:

  • Guo, Qinghua. (2005). Chinese Architecture and Planning: Ideas, Methods, and Techniques. Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3932565541" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 3932565541</a>.

This artifact is now located in the Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China; from collection posted at www.GaryLeeTodd.com by Dr. Gary L. Todd, Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China.

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current20:43, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:43, 3 January 20173,888 × 2,592 (1.51 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)A Chinese mid-Eastern-Han Dynasty (25–220 CE) ceramic architectural model of a fortified multistory manor house with a covered bridge extended to a smaller watchtower. This model was excavated by archaeologists in 1993 from an Eastern-Han tomb at Jiazuo, Henan Province, China. The main building is 192 cm tall, and has a courtyard with gate-towers, an exterior stairway leading from the courtyard to the front balcony of the first level, and four sets of rooftops. This information is taken from: <ul><li>Guo, Qinghua. (2005). <i>Chinese Architecture and Planning: Ideas, Methods, and Techniques</i>. Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3932565541" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 3932565541</a>.</li></ul> This artifact is now located in the Henan Provincial Museum, Zhengzhou, China; from collection posted at www.GaryLeeTodd.com by Dr. Gary L. Todd, Professor of History, Sias International University, Xinzheng, China.
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