浅释三星堆二号祭祀坑出土的“边璋”图案

AN EXPLANATION FOR THE DESIGN ON THE BIANZHANG UNEARTHED FROM PIT NOⅡAT SANXINDUI

1986年夏,在四川广汉市三星堆遗址城墙外西南,距南城墙约60~70米处发掘出土两个大型祭祀坑。坑内共出土各种青铜神像、偶像及其它祭祀用品约千件。这两个祭祀坑的年代均在商代,根据出土器物所反映的年代特征及地层叠压关系可知,一号坑略早,时代相当于二里岗上层至殷墟早期之间;二号坑的时代大致相当于殷墟中期或偏晚。

Analysing the design on one piece of the bianzhang(璋),a jade tablet unearthed from Pit No.ff,at Sanxindui Site,the author suggests that the design represents two parts of implicationt the Lower one is sorcerers’sacrifice ceremony for the mountain god and the upper one the god’s receiving the sacrifice.So this bianzhang is supposed to be,rather than an ordinary ritual article,an incantation apparatus used by the sorcerer in the routine ritual ceremomies to appeal to help from spirits,the Shu people。