对青州七级寺出土一件背屏式造像时代的考证——兼谈青州北朝晚期背屏式造像的发展演变规律

Textual Research on a Statue with a Back Screen Unearthed from the Qiji Temple at Qingzhou——Plus a Discussion on the Evolutionary Principles of This Type of Statues during the Late Northern Dynasties

上世纪90年代青州七级寺遗址出土了一件一佛二菩萨背屏式造像,没有明确纪年。关于其年代学界存有争议,简报作者将其时代定为北魏,有些学者则将其定为东魏。作者试图通过排比青州地区背屏式造像,梳理、总结该地区背屏式造像形式的发展演变规律,进而推定该造像的年代。

A collection of statues including one Buddha and two bodhisattvas with a back screen was unearthed from an archaeological site at the Qiji Temple in Qingzhou, but the statues have yet to be dated exactly.The author of one brief report speculates that they are from the Northern Wei dynasty but other scholars believe them to date from the Eastern Wei dynasty, and the issue has yet to be satisfactorily resolved. This paper uses a comparative and textual methodology to date this statue by comparing it with statues of the same type from the Qingzhou region and by summarizing the evolutionary principles that determined this style of artwork and thus set it apart from other historical instances of Buddhist sculpture.