甘肃武威亥母寺遗址01窟发掘简报

Excavation of Cave O1 of the Haimu Temple Site in Wuwei,Gansu

亥母寺遗址是西夏时期的一处佛教遗址,也是我国现存较早的一处藏传佛教遗址。2003年,由甘肃省人民政府公布为第六批省级文物保护单位。20世纪80年代,武威市博物馆文物工作队对该遗址暴露的洞窟进行了初步清理,出土了一批西夏时期的文化遗存,有西夏文、藏文佛经和唐卡以及各类材质的生活用器等。

The Haimu Temple Site is a Tibetan Buddhist site of the Western Xia dynasty,also one of the sixth group of cultural heritage sites under provincial-level protection in Gansu.During the 1980s,archaeologists conducted the initial excavation of exposed caves;from 2016 to 2019,the site was reinforced,and four caves and 800 sq.m.of architectural remains in front of the caves were excavated.Cave O1 consists of house foundations in front of the cave and the front room,passage,and back room inside,all badly preserved.Accumulations manifest that the cave was abandoned before the 1927 Wuwei earthquake.27 varieties of remains were discovered in it;found artifacts are significant in quantity and rich in types,mainly historical documents,Buddhist relics,daily necessities,and building components,also with a few coins,weapons,oracle bones,etc.The considerable number of Western Xia documents discovered is the largest in amount and most concentrated finding after the Heishui City,Western Xia Mausoleums,Baisigou Square Pagoda,and Mogao Caves,which greatly enriched the written materials on Western Xia Studies.