黔西滇东地区一批征集铜铃的类型、年代与相关问题

Types, Ages, and Related Issues of a Batch of Collected Copper Bells from the Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan Regions

摘要: 云南、贵州两省的考古、文物工作者曾在黔西滇东一带征集、采集到一批在铃身外壁浮雕各种特殊纹饰图案的管形双耳铜铃，但是对其类型、年代及其表面纹饰图案的具体内涵等相关认识尚不清晰。通过将这一批采集铜铃与出土同类形制的器物进行类型学分析，这些征集、采集所获的铜铃皆属同类器物中的较晚形态。再结合其形制演变历程及出土墓葬的年代，进一步判断这些采集铜铃的年代应处于东汉时期，而铃身外壁浮雕的纹饰图案则与年代相仿的贵州地区岩画题材具有相似之处，主要功能或为祭祀用器。

Abstract: Archaeologists and cultural relics workers from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces have collected a batch of tubular double-handled bronze bells with various special patterns embossed on the outer wall of the bell body in the area between western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan. However, their understanding of the type, dating, and specific connotations of the surface patterns is still unclear. Through typological analysis of this batch of collected bronze bells and similar artifacts unearthed, it is found that these collected and gathered bronze bells belong to the later forms of the same type of artifacts. Combined with their morphological evolution and the dating of the unearthed tombs, it is further determined that the dating of these collected bronze bells should be in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The patterns embossed on the outer wall of the bell body are similar to the themes of rock paintings in Guizhou region of similar age, and their main function may be as sacrificial vessels.