Note 634 — Chapter VI · LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK

The Nestorian Monument was set up in 781 A.D. in the department or prefecture of Hsî-an, province of Shen-hsî, northwestern China. At the end of the inscription on it we read: “Erected in the second year of the period Chien-chung of the great T’ang dynasty, the year-star being in Tso-yo, on the seventh day of the first month, being Sunday.” See James Legge, The Nestorian Monument of Hsî-an Fu in Shen-hsî, China, London, 1888, p. 29. A replica of this monument, which is a limestone block ten feet in height and of two tons’ weight, was taken to the United States in 1908 and now rests in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. See F. V. Holm, “The Holm Nestorian Expedition to Sian, MCMVII,” Open Court, 1909, xxiii, 18-28.