河南永城僖山二号汉墓人面纹玉衣片浅析

A Preliminary Study of the Jade Shroud Pieces with Human-face Design Unearthed from Han Period Tomb No.2 at Xishan in Yongcheng,Henan

河南永城市僖山梁国墓群二号墓中出土了一批金缕玉衣所用玉衣片,其中有6枚琢刻人面纹和网状纹。本文认为这批玉片为古代祭祀所用的玉人改造而成,整理者所谓的人面纹玉片及网纹,其实分别代表玉人的面部及腰带,网状纹交叉线的数量是随意为之,并不代表排列的序号。此外,这些玉人很可能代表女性。这些玉人应为祭祀所用的偶人。僖山二号墓之所以将其改造为金缕玉衣的玉衣片,正是梁国国力极为衰弱的表现。

A batch of jade pieces of a gold-thread-sewn jade shroud was unearthed from Tomb No. 2 in the Xishan Graveyard of the Liang State within Yongcheng City, Henan Province. Among the finds are six pieces that bear carved human-face and network designs. The present paper believes that all these jades are remade of ancient sacrificial human figurines and what the original reporter called human-face design jade pieces and network patterns are actually the representation of the jade figurines＇ faces and belts respectively. The numbers of crisscross lines in the net patterns were formed casually but not ordinals for arranging in order. In addition, these jade figurines may have represented females. They must have been human figurines used in sacrifice. Their remake into jade pieces of a gold-thread-sown jade shroud for Tomb Xishan-II expresses just the extremely weakening of the Liang State＇ s national power.