Shisan Ling (Ming Dynasty Tombs, Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty)

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Creator Ming Chengzu, Emperor of China -- Founder -- Chinese -- Male
Title Shisan Ling (Ming Dynasty Tombs, Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty)
Spatial Coverage Changping, Beijing Shi, China
Latitude 40.253333
Longitude 116.2175
Description Bixi (dragon-headed turtle) in the Shengong Shengde Stele Pavilion. Photographed June 8, 2001.
Work Dates 1409-1644
Date Earliest 1409
Century 15, 16, 17
Style Period Chinese dynastic, Ming
Culture Chinese
Subject Ceremonial structures -- Funerary structures -- Tombs -- Royal tombs; Ceremonial structures -- Funerary structures -- Funerary buildings -- Sepulchral buildings -- Mausoleums; Complexes -- Cemeteries -- Necropolises; Sculpture (visual work) -- Statues; Animals -- Reptiles -- Turtles
Image Source Peter Goss.
Rights Digital image copyright 2012, Peter Goss, goss@arch.utah.edu. All rights reserved. Use of this file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Contributing Institution University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture
CA+P Accession No. P0810n05_04_39156
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s6rn3c9m
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 91560
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rn3c9m