从出土实物和模拟实验看商周青铜器纹饰技术的发展脉络

通过对出土实物的观察和做模拟实验的发现,笔者认为,商周青铜器的纹饰技术伴随其范铸分型技术的进步而不断发展,同时它也引起铭文技术随之变化。商周青铜器纹饰技术具体的发展脉络为:夏代青铜器制模、制范技术不规范,纹饰技术处于摸索阶段。商早期青铜器范铸分型技术已具成熟的工艺设计思想,在素范面压塑纹饰的"纹饰压塑技术"出现;商中期青铜器纹饰技术有了划时代的进步,出现了"纹饰堆塑技术",且与"纹饰压塑技术"兼容并用;商晚期青铜器纹饰技术达到顶峰。西周青铜器范铸分型技术无明显进步,纹饰制作技术显示退化趋势;春秋中期以后,青铜器范铸工艺分型增多,纹饰技术发生改革,发明了单元纹饰范拚兑技术。     

Special alloys from remote frontiers of the Shang Kingdom: scientific study of the Hanzhong bronzes from southwest Shaanxi, China

More than 200 bronze objects found in Hanzhong, southwest Shaanxi Province, China, a frontier region of the Shang Kingdom during the Shang dynasty, have been analysed for their composition and microstructure. Forty-three typologically distinct, and probably culturally indigenous, items have been found to be compositionally distinctive as well. This paper presents analytical results of the two types of local Hanzhong bronzes, namely the sickle-shaped and sceptre-shaped objects. Three special alloys, arsenic bronze, antimonial bronze and copper–nickel–arsenic ternary alloy, are particularly emphasized and discussed. The archaeological context of Hanzhong bronzes and their significance for the archaeometallurgy research of the Shang period are discussed as well.     

The production of speiss (iron arsenide) during the Early Bronze Age in Iran

In this paper, analyses of some unusual slag samples from the prehistoric site of Tepe Hissar in northeastern Iran are presented. These slags are the remains of a five-thousand-year-old pyrotechnological process that produced speiss, a quasi-metallic material usually formed as an accidental by-product of copper or lead smelting. We argue that the “speiss slags” from Tepe Hissar suggest the intentional production of iron–arsenic alloy (“speiss”) in prehistory. Why the Tepe Hissar metalworkers produced speiss is a question that requires further investigation, but our preliminary assessment suggests that it was to provide arsenic as an alloying component for arsenical copper, the preferred copper alloy during much of the Early Bronze Age in Iran, and widely used across the ancient world. This recognition significantly advances our understanding of the early stages of metallurgy in the Old World.     

一件凤纹漆衣铜镜的保护处理

铜胎漆器在中国古代因实用功能的差异而拥有不同的品种。“漆衣铜镜”作为铜胎漆器的一个工艺品种,因其数量的鲜少而倍受漆器鉴赏家和研究者的关注。有一件凤纹漆衣铜镜由于长期浸泡于水中而得以较完整保存,出土后笔者首先对其损害状况和病因进行了分析,然后通过脱水保护处理,使这面铜镜达到较为稳定的保存状态。通过显微观察和电镜成分分析,确定漆彩绘至少存在4种不同的颜色。在分析研究的基础上,对其绘制图案进行了效果与工艺的复原。     

仪征新集螃蟹地七号汉墓发掘简报

2002年仪征新集螃蟹地发现一座新莽时期墓葬,墓中出土了一批精美铜器、漆器等,由铜器铭文推知墓主为汉代广陵国贵族,此墓为研究西汉晚期广陵国文化、经济、丧葬习俗及铜器制造工艺等提供了宝贵的实物资料。     

释西周金文赏赐物“甲”

本文通过对西周金文赏赐物甲进行全面的分析,同时根据铭辞文意和诸赏赐物排列规律,推测传统释为盾的一些形体应为甲;并对甲、盾二字在西周金文中的演变做了较为详细地阐述。     

西周金文中的“异人同名”现象及其对断代研究的影响

由新出金文资料及相关事例可知西周金文中普遍存在异人同名现象。而望簋与师望诸器、师汤父鼎与仲柟父诸器这两个典型例证则显示了以往西周铜器断代研究中忽视异人同名现象所带来的消极影响。因此,在铜器断代研究中运用人名系联法时,应该充分重视异人同名的可能性,尽可能综合考虑其他因素。     

殷墟青铜礼器铸造工艺研究综论

本文评述了与殷墟青铜礼器铸造工艺研究相关的技术史、考古学和艺术史文献,概述了殷墟治铸遗址的发现和研究状况,分析取得的认识和存在的局限,探讨了在技术演进、文化传播及治铸业的组织管理等方面值得深入的问题.     

越文化青铜乐器初探

越文化青铜乐器有铙、甬钟、纽钟、镈钟、句鑃、铎、鼓等,除铙、部分甬钟的年代可拟定为商代晚期至西周时期外,其他皆集中在春秋晚期至战国中期,可分属于越建国前、越国两大时期。越建国前的乐器中,南方风格的铙占据着最重要的地位;而在越国时期的乐器中,出现了成组的中原风格的编甬钟、纽钟等,说明越国的上层贵族已华夏化。     

也说师■鼎铭的“困(韋東)伯太师武”

师■鼎铭"困伯太师武"一句的"困(韋東)"二字,原文写法非常奇怪。裘锡圭先生释为"東(韋東)",读为"范围",认为是遵循、效法之意。本文同意把后一字释为"(韋東)",但把前一字改释为"困"。"困(韋東)"也是遵循、效法的意思。