新疆尉犁县克亚克库都克烽燧遗址出土勋告文书初步研究

Preliminary Research on the Xun-gao(勋告)Documents Unearthed from the Keyakekuduke Watchtower Site in Yuli County,Xinjiang

新疆尉犁县克亚克库都克烽燧遗址为唐代焉耆镇下一处基层军事机构“沙堆烽”的故址。遗址出土木简、纸文书800余件。其中多件纸质文书属于勋告文书或与勋告有关,对我们认识唐代勋告制度,了解戍边将士日常生活,掌握安西四镇兵源状况,探寻边塞烽堠预警系统运行细节,研究唐代军事制度的变化等问题提供了新的考古资料。

The Keyakekuduke watchtower site was the former location of the"Sha-dui"(沙堆,or sand dune)watchtower,a grassroots military unit administered by the Karasahr town in the Tang Dynasty.Over 800 pieces of paper documents and wooden slips have been uncovered from the site.Most paper documents are Xun-gao(勋告,the official document issued by the Tang court which announced the conferral of official position or peerage to the individuals with great military achievements)documents or related to Xun-gao,which provide new archaeological materials for our understandings on various issues such as the Xun-gao system in the Tang Dynasty,the daily life of frontier soldiers,the sources of conscription in the four towns of Anxi Protectorate,the operational details of the watchtower warning system in the frontier area,as well as the transformations of the military system of the Tang Dynasty.