Ersi [0013] Qiyou

[Ersi [0013] Qiyou]

Ersi [0013] Qiyou is 38.4 cm in height, 36.9 cm in width and 8.86 kg in weight. It is said that it was unearthed in Anyang, Henan Province before 1940
Elliptical web lifting beam you. The cover, neck, ring foot and lifting beam are all decorated with Kui patterns, and the middle of the neck is decorated with a small animal head on both sides
It has 39 inscriptions on the outer bottom, and 4 characters of “Yafu Ding” on the cover and the inner bottom, which is one of the longest inscriptions on the existing Shang Dynasty bronzes. The inscription on the outer bottom is as follows:. Bing
Bei Wupeng. In the first month of the month, it is sent to
Taiyi [0015] on the third day of the month
Only the king and the two sacrifices. Both
[0014] (Yin Yang) and the emperor
(Li: “Zhou Li · School People”, “Shu Bo Lipi.” “Note”, “two skins.” refers to a pair of animal skins. Brother (Li): that is, reward. As a general rule in the Jin Dynasty, the envoys sent by the king to the vassals are called “envoys”, and the envoys are required to give gifts to the envoys as a rule, and the gifts are called “guests”.)
The main idea of the inscription is that King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty ordered [0013] to issue a decree to go to Yadi, hunt in Yongdi, and present a pair of animal skins to the head of Yadi. The head of the emirate returned “0013” five strings of shellfish. It was on the third day of the first month of the second year of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, when a sacrificial ceremony was held to honor the wife of Taiyi, Siu Bing. [0013] He made contributions to the God in heaven and the Shang king on earth
The inscription on this bronze ware plays a very important role in studying the relationship between the royal family and the surrounding countries in the late Shang Dynasty, as well as the sacrificial system of the Shang royal family, the Yin system, the calendar system, etc. In the past, some scholars suspected that the inscription on this You was forged. For this reason, our hospital has carried out X-ray inspection and analysis on the You. Through the verification of the fluoroscopy, the part of the inscription on the utensil is integral with the bottom and foot of the utensil, and there is no welding trace, which can eliminate the possibility of false inscription.

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