小臣墙骨版刻辞残缺文字拟补

A Tentative Completion of The Missing Text in ’Xiao Chen Qiang’ Oracle-Bone Inscription

本文重点对小臣墙骨版中有关小臣墙的记事刻辞残缺文字进行了拟补,拟补的依据主要有:(1)商周献俘礼中记录俘获品的顺序;(2)刻辞中几个关键字词含义的理解,如“比”字;(3)相关战争辞例的比勘。综合多种因素,本文拟补出每列上端所残缺的字数和内容,并由此统计出该条记事刻辞的总字数不到90字。

A tentative completion of the missing parts of the oracle bone inscription on ‘Xiao Chen Qiang’ follows the three bases: 1.The order by which the captures are sacrificed in the offering ceremony in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties (BC1600-BC221). 2.The interpretation of several key characters such as 比 in the inscriptions. 3.The comparative analysis between the war inscriptions involved. Included with the incomplete characters, there are less than 90 characters of the total in the oracle bone inscriptions on ‘Xiao Chen Qiang’.