近年来六朝都城考古的主要收获

Recent Archaeological Discoveries of the Ancient Capital of the Six Dynasties

有关"六朝都城"建业及建康的研究成果,一直只能依靠文献进行,其主要原因是"六朝都城"遗址基本上都被叠压在现代南京城的地下,无法进行大规模的考古发掘。以田野工作为特征的"六朝都城考古",开始于20世纪末21世纪初,其大规模考古发掘始于南京老虎桥工地对六朝"台城"的考古探索。近20年来,"六朝都城考古"收获巨大,不仅发现了都城中心区和石头城、确认了"西州城"的位置、发现了佛教寺庙遗存及礼制建筑遗存,还出土了大量可以揭示六朝都城文化内涵的珍贵遗物,如瓦当、陶瓷器等。这些成果对今后六朝都城考古工作的进一步推进有着重要的参考性作用。

The study on Jianye, or Jiankang, the ancient capitalof the Six Dynasties, had been primarily dependent on historical documents as the Six Dynasties remains were entirely overlaid by modern infrastruc- tures of Nanjing, which made large-scaled archaeological excavations unfeasible. The field research on the Six Dynasties capital city was not conducted until the turn of the 21st century, with the Taicheng city at Nan- jing＇ s Laohuqiao as the first large-scaled site for excavation. The past two decades have witnessed great ac- complishments in this field, which include the discoveries of the sites of the capital＇ s downtown area and the Stone City, the identification of the location of the Xizhou City, the unearth of a range of remains of Buddhist temples and ritual architectures, and the finding of a large amount of relics, such as tile-ends and ceramics, that contain valuable information on the culture of the Six Dynasties capital. These research findings are of great significance to the future archaeological studies.