龜腹甲的“腋凹”“胯凹”與甲骨綴合

殷墟甲骨有些部位容易發生斷裂,如果根據其斷裂部位的形態分類收集資料,認識其形態特徵,就可以縮小綴合的範圍,增加綴合成果。本文以'腋凹'和'胯凹'部位爲例,闡述如何利用甲骨形態學的知識進行甲骨綴合的工作。

After three millenniums of years buried underground at Yinxu,a large number of oracle shells and bones were already in fragments when they were discovered;others were broken later due to handling.Rejoining of these fragments and thus inscriptions is highly important to the study of oracle bone inscriptions.However,the work of rejoining,like doing jigsaw puzzles,can be very challenging as the shapes of fragments are so ill-defined.Analysis of the anatomical structure of turtle shell and plastron may allow us to identify sites which are intrinsically fragile and thus easier to fracture.Using this knowledge we may be able to group fragments according to certain anatomical characteristics and thus facilitate the rejoining process.Here we present some examples focusing on the axillary and inguinal notch parts2?(腋凹和胯凹)of plastron to illustrate how this strategy can be applied to rejoining work.