久别重逢的石雕——云冈石窟窟前出土的几件石雕找到了位置

On the Discovery of the Original Resting Place of Several Stone Sculptures Excavated from the Front of the Yungang Grottoes

2013年夏秋之际,在云冈石窟五华洞窟檐复建工地,我们发现了500多块石窟塌落的造像残件。其中有的石块可以在1954年水野清一、长广敏雄著的《云冈石窟》第14卷中找到旧照,有的石雕残块与1992年昙曜五窟窟前出土石雕能拼接在一起。事实证明,这些石雕残块是20世纪40年代日本学者在昙曜五窟前发掘过的,但又不知何因被填埋在远离昙曜五窟的第12窟正前方的南北向探沟内。经我们调查核对,还找到了一些石块在石窟中原来的位置。这些石雕对我们了解云冈石窟造像,进行雕像恢复以及开展学术研究都具有一定的价值。

In the summer and autumn of 2013, more than five hundred broken stone sculptures that had fallen from caves when a cliff collapsed were excavated when reconstruction of the eaves of the Wuhua Caves at the Yungang Grottoes commenced. Old pictures of some of these stone sculptures can be found in vol.14 of Yun-Kang complied by Seiichi Mizuno and Toshio Nagahiro in 1954, and some of these sculptures can be matched with pieces excavated in 1992 from the front of the Tanyao Five Caves. All facts show that these stone sculptures were once unearthed from the Tanyao Five Caves site in the 1940 s by Japanese scholars, and for unknown reasons, they were buried again in the north-south trial trench just in front of cave 12, which is quite far from the Tanyao Five Caves. This investigation has established the original positions of several stone sculptures in the caves, which are of certain value for understanding and restoring the statues, and for further academic study.