Tomb of An Jia

Tomb of An Jia
Created579 CE
Discovered34°18′22″N 108°57′07″E / 34.306°N 108.952°E / 34.306; 108.952
Xi'an
Xi'an

The Tomb of Ān Jiā, also sometimes read Ān Qié (Chinese: 安伽墓石門暨圍屏石榻; 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 (安伽) died in the founding year of the Daxiang (大象) era (579 CE), during the reign of Emperor Jing.