| This skull of an approximately thirty-year-old male was discovered with a bronze arrowhead embedded above the left temporal bone. A burial object was also found, a silver toad with the characters "Shaofu" inscribed in its mouth. "Shaofu" was the superintendent of the lesser treasury collecting tax revenues and providing for the emperor's needs. It is one of the seven skeletons found in the 17 tombs from the Qin dynasty discovered in Shangjiao Village. Most academics agree that these tombs belong to members of the Qin royal family and court officials who were slain by the Emperor Qin Ershi. However, the bodies were buried in poses that do not conform to the Qin tradition, and the identity of these skeletons requires further investigation. This is a collection of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum. |
