石峁皇城台石雕的几点认识

New Understanding of the Stone Sculptures at the Huangchengtai Location at Shimao

本文对石峁遗址发现的石雕进行了讨论,辨析了石峁石雕上的几例虎纹;讨论了石雕上的虎食人图案及其与商周时期同类纹饰的内涵。认为石峁石雕上纹样的幅面巨大,是具有公众性的一类纹饰,与龙山—二里头文化时期小型私人化的玉雕内涵不同,同时认为石雕上纹样与青铜器上所见的兽面纹有直接的发展关系,是铜器兽面纹的直接来源。

This paper casts new light on the stone sculptures found from the Shimao site and the symbolic meaning of tiger motifs.In addition,this paper contextualizes the discovery of the sculptures in broader contexts and discusses the meaning of the‘tiger-eating-human’motif and similar motifs found on Shang-Zhou period bronzes.Given the wide coverage of the motif on the sculptures,the author argues that the decoration might have been used for public display,and that its nature was different from those personalized jade figures dating to the Longshan-Erlitou period.Moreover,the author suggests that the motif might have been the origin of the beast motif on bronze ritual vessels.