安徽舒城九里墩春秋墓

A SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD TOMB AT JIULIDUN,SHUCHENG, ANHUI

1980年9月,舒城县孔集公社九里墩大队窑厂在烧砖瓦取土时发现一座古墓。县文物组同志闻讯后,保护了现场,并向省文物局作了汇报。省局派我队与县文物组,清理了这座墓葬。九里墩位于舒城县城东4公里,杭埠河北。据舒城县志记载,这里原名九女墩,现群众俗称九里墩(图一)。墓葬地面原有高约10米的封土堆,占地面积约6800平方米。

A tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period was discovered and excavated at Jiulidun, Shucheng County, Anhui Province in September 1980.The tomb pit is 8.60 meters long and 4.44 meters wide with an east-west orientation of 120 degrees and has a depth of 2.7 meters. The south-eastern part of the pit was damaged. The bottom of the grave is floored with wood planks, and the coffin and all the funerary objects were placed upon it. The coffin is completely rotten. There are evidence that the tombs had been robbed twice before, but still as many as 183 pieces of funerary objects were found in it, including over 170 bronzes.The bronzes found in this tomb are another important batch of bronzes in the province since the finds of the Cai Hou tomb in 1955. The bronze drum stand among them is a very rare bronze article, for it has a cast inscription of 150 Chinese characters in two rows around its dody. The first row contains 98 words, and the second one 52. There is also a halberd bearing the inscription of inlaid gold: 'Halberd used by Cai——'. The style of the words is identical with that of the words on the bronzes of the Cai Hou tomb. A careful study of some of the inscriptions shows the possibility that the tomb owner is probably a prince of the states of the Shu people (舒) in the late Sping and Autumn Period. This also means that there had been cultural exchanges between the Shu and the Cai states. These bronze articles with their inscriptions are new source material for studying the history of the Shu people.