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Tomb of An Jia

China · built 579

The Tomb of Ān Jiā, also sometimes read Ān Qié (lit. 'Stone tomb gate and couch of An Jia'), is a Northern Zhou period (557–581 CE) funeral monument to a Sogdian nobleman named "An Jia" in the Chinese epitaph. The tomb was excavated in the city of Xi'an, then capital of Northern Zhou. It is now located in the collections of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. An Jia died in the founding year of the Daxiang era (579 CE), during the reign of Emperor Jing.

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