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Leitai

Leitai’s raised platform lies in Wuwei’s Liangzhou District. A temple for the thunder god was later built above the Han tombs. Excavations in 1969 and 1996 uncovered two large brick tombs; the bronze horse came from the earlier discovery. The terrace preserves the place where the object entered the archaeological record, while the original is now in the provincial museum.

The Eastern Han bronze galloping horse from the Leitai tomb, shown in a museum display.
The Eastern Han bronze galloping horse from the Leitai tomb, in the collection of Gansu Provincial Museum.

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The Eastern Han bronze galloping horse from the Leitai tomb, shown in a museum display.

The horse found beneath Leitai

A bronze horse excavated from a Han tomb beneath Leitai in Wuwei now stands in the Gansu Provincial Museum. The terrace above the tomb carries a later temple and a longer local memory.

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  1. The Eastern Han bronze galloping horse from the Leitai tomb, in the collection of Gansu Provincial Museum.Author not specified on source page · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.