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The one next to the entrance, (a), was big, obviously of a man, while the one in the middle, (b), was small and probably that of a woman. ... From the mouth of (a) a thin gold coin (Pl.CXX) was recovered, derived like the one in Ast.i.3 from a type of Justinian I, but struck only on one side and manifestly a more distant imitation.\"\r\nStein 1928, p.646: \"The fact that out of the four coins actually found by us in the mouths of Astana corpses three are Byzantine gold pieces or imitations of such pieces (Ast.i.3.023; Ast.i.5.08; Ast.i.6.03) and one a Sasanian silver coin (Ast.v.2.02) might naturally predispose us to connect this practice with the ancient Greek custom of placing a coin between the lips of the dead as the fare to Charon, the ferryman of Hades. But the reference with which M. Chavannes kindly supplied me in 1916 to a Buddhist story in the Chinese Tripitaka suggests that the custom was not unknown in the Far East also. [fn4: See Chavannes, Cinq cents contes et apologues extraits du Tripitaka chinois, i, p.248] It must further be borne in mind that as China had never had a gold or silver coinage, those who at Turfan wished to provide their dead with an adequate obolus for the journey to the world beyond would necessarily have to use a coin of Western origin for their pious purpose, if they wished it to be of precious metal.\"\r\n","metadata":[{"label":"Record in Omeka","value":"<a href=\"/items/show/1432\">View page</a>"},{"label":"Subject","value":"5th-6th centuries, found in Astana, gold, 0.59 g, British Museum"}],"otherContent":[{"@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1432/annolist.json","@type":"sc:AnnotationList"}]}]}],"description":"Gold coin; imitation of Byzantine coin.\r\nCurator's comments\r\nStein 1928, p.648: \"Tomb i.5, which lay nearest to i.1 in a southerly direction, was found to contain three bodies, lying with their heads to the south. 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[fn4: See Chavannes, Cinq cents contes et apologues extraits du Tripitaka chinois, i, p.248] It must further be borne in mind that as China had never had a gold or silver coinage, those who at Turfan wished to provide their dead with an adequate obolus for the journey to the world beyond would necessarily have to use a coin of Western origin for their pious purpose, if they wished it to be of precious metal.\"\r\n","metadata":[{"label":"Record in Omeka","value":"<a href=\"/items/show/1432\">View page</a>"},{"label":"Subject","value":"5th-6th centuries, found in Astana, gold, 0.59 g, British Museum"}],"service":[{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/search/1/context.json","@id":"https://haaimagehosting.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/oa/items/1432/search","label":"Search this manifest with Omeka","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/search/1/search"}]}