敦煌出土唐代鸟头十字架为拜占廷文物考

A Bird-headed Crusade Recovered from Dunhuang:Maybe a Byzantine item?

1988年出土于敦煌莫高窟北区的青铜鸟头十字架,无疑是一件中国境内罕见的唐代基督教考古证据。但是该文物一直未获得深度解读,仅初步判定属于景教文物。本文经过考证,重新判定为拜占廷东正教文物。

A bronze crusade shaped in four bird heads was discovered from the Northern caves, Mogao, Dunhuang in 1988. It could be a rare evidence of Christian artwork in Tang China. So far this item is not be fully understood by the academy circle, but is roughly regarded as a Nestorian piece. This paper reexamine it as the Eastern Orthodoxy crusade originally from the Byzantine Empire.