The rich wine cellar of the beast's head horn cup

Mr. Dai, the first person to open this earthenware urn, recalled that the mouth of the urn was a square piece of jade, with silver plates and bowls piled under it. The golden basin, basket, patterned gold cup, jade belt, silver box and silver jar of the gilded parrot are all in it, which is amazing. Luoyang shovel just made a hole in the lower part of the urn and hit it directly on a pile of silver plates. There was a gap between the plates, so the shovel flashed when digging. Open the lid of the silver jar of the gilded parrot beam, which still contains water. There are several pieces of gold foil floating on the water, 12 small golden dragons standing neatly on it, and all the red, green and sapphire are in the water.

Archaeologists also found a small silver jar next to the pottery urn, which contained a beautiful animal head horn cup.

These cultural relics were rushed to the Shaanxi Provincial Museum for inventory and registration. Boy, a *** 1000. According to the classification, it can be divided into 27 1 gold and silver vessels, 8 silver collars, 22 silver cakes, 60 silver plates, 466 gold, silver and copper coins, 3 agates, 1 glassware, 1 crystal vessels, 1 jade belts and1jade arm rings. There are also gold foils, jade materials and precious stones. The total weight of gold is 298 taels, and the total weight of silver is more than 3900 taels.

There are as many as 39 kinds of coins alone, including Kaiyuan Bao Tong, which was popular in the Tang Dynasty, Gaochang Geely in Gao Changguo in the Western Regions, Hetongkai, which was minted by the Japanese Yuan and Ming emperors, Sassanian silver coins in Persia and East Roman gold coins. The time span is more than 1000 years, stretching to the Sea of Japan in the east and the Mediterranean Sea in the west, reaching thousands of kilometers. This is the first time in the history of coins, and it is an unprecedented discovery in the history of coin collection.

The words on the unearthed silver collars, silver cakes and silver plates relate to the year number, region and type of taxes, which fully reflects the economic system of the Tang Dynasty. Among the 22 silver cakes, there are 4 Yongtiao silver cakes, which is the first discovery of Yongtiao silver. Among these treasures, there are a whole set of medicinal materials and a variety of medicinal materials, all of which are precious medicinal materials in the Tang Dynasty, among which cinnabar alone has seven specifications. This is the most systematic and complete discovery of contraceptives and drugs in the Tang Dynasty so far, and it is also a great discovery in the history of ancient Chinese medicine.