谈洛阳伊川徐阳墓地出土的两件铭文铜器

On the inscriptions on two bronze objects found at the Xuyang cemetery in Yichuan, Luoyang City

洛阳伊川徐阳墓地出土两件铭文铜器,一件为西周时期的铜戈,另一件为春秋时期的铜勺。铜戈上铸有铭文“成周”二字,铜勺上铸有铭文“宔之[主斗]”三字。成周戈是洛阳地区首件经科学发掘出土的带“成周”铭文的铜器,成周戈的发现进一步证明西周东都位于洛阳一带,也证明自西周中期始“成周”是西周东都的唯一称呼。“宔之[主斗]”,“宔”读为主,“[主斗]”为“斗”字的异体。“主之斗”铜勺是目前发现的第一件自名为斗的铜勺,铭文表明此勺是内迁至伊洛河流域的戎人首领所用之勺。

There are two bronze objects found at the Xuyang Cemetery in Yichuan,Luoyang,that have inscriptions on them.One is a Western-Zhou ge halberd,and the other is a Spring-and-Autumn period scoop.The inscriptions on the bronze ge halberd have two characters,‘cheng zhou(accomplishing Zhou),whilst those on the bronze scoop are three characters of‘zhu zhi dou’.The Chengzhou ge halberd is the first bronze object found by scientific archaeology in the Luoyang region that bears the characters of‘cheng zhou’.Its discovery further proves that the eastern capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty was located in the Luoyang region and that from the middle Western Zhou onwards,‘cheng zhou’was the only name of the eastern capital.In the inscriptions of‘zhu zhi dou’,the character‘zhu(宔)’should be pronounced as zhu,whilst the character‘’should be considered a variant of the character‘dou(斗)’.The‘Zhu zhi dou’bronze scoop is the first bronze scoop ever unearthed whose inscriptions called itself a dou container.These inscriptions clearly indicate that this object was used by leader of the rong people who migrated to the Yi-luo River region during the time.