陶寺遗址ⅡM26出土骨耜刻文试析

A Trial Interpretation to the Incised Mark on the Bone Si-spade Unearthed from ⅡM26 at Taosi Site

陶寺文化中期ⅡM26出土1件骨耜,根据骨耜的出土状况,墓主可能为农官的背景,判断骨耜应具有农业礼器功能。据电子显微镜观察结果,骨耜上的刻痕是人为契刻。将ⅡM26骨耜的刻文字形与甲骨文"辰"字进行对比,并结合与农业或农事职官相关的背景,可认为该骨耜上的刻文可能为最初的汉字"辰"字。

Based on the archaeological context of the bone si-spade unearthed from the tomb Ⅱ M26 of the middle phase of Taosi Culture, the occupant of this tomb was estimated as an agricultural official, and this bone si-spade was also estimated to be a ritual implement about agriculture. The electron microscopic observation result showed that the scratches on the bone si-spade were an intentionally incised mark. With the proposition that the Taosi Culture belonged to the Central Plains Cultural Sphere, this incised mark was compared with the character ＂chen辰＂ in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yinxu Site; with the reference to the background of the bone si-spade as a ritual implement about agriculture and the occupant of the tomb Ⅱ M26 as an agricultural official, this paper glossed this incised mark as the early form of the Chinese character ＂chen辰＂.