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 Standing lion standing guard along Spirit road. 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 -- Lions
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_39166
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/s6d79fvn
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 91586
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d79fvn