河南安阳市殷墟铁三路89号墓的发掘

The Excavation of the Burial M89 on Tiesan Road at Yinxu Site in Anyang,Henan

2006年,在殷墟南部铁三路制骨作坊区发现的89号墓,年代属殷墟文化第二期。该墓规模不大,出土了大量玉石器,包括等级较高的铜柄玉戚及铜骸玉矛,还有玉器半成品、残次品和制玉工具等。结合所出铜觚上的玉璋形铭文,推测墓主可能是从事玉器生产、管理的中小贵族,该墓的发现对研究殷墟手工业生产具有重要意义。

In 2006, a burial of the Shang Dynasty （numbered as M89） was found in the bone workshop zone of the Shang Dynasty on the Tiesan Road in the south of the Yinxu Site. The date of this burial was Phase II of the Yinxu Culture; it was a rectangular vertical earthen shaft pit burial with a small size, in the grave goods unearthed, there were only one set of bronze gu-goblet and jue-cup, but there were large amount of jades, including jade yue- battle ax with bronze tang and jade spearhead with bronze socket, which were the symbols of rather high status, and semi-finished jade products, jade wastes and jade-working tools. Refen＇ing to the jade scepter-shaped inscription on the bronze gu-goblet, the occupant of this burial was estimated to be a petty aristocrat in charge of the production of jades and management of jade workshop, and his clan might be the specialized jade workers and there might be jade workshops of the Yinxu Period nearby this burial. M89 is the first burial found in Yinxu Site whose occupant could be estimated as jade worker, and has significant meanings for the research on the handicraft production of that time.