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1 The Sword of Goujian—which is believed to have been made c. 510 BC for Goujian 1 越王勾踐劍據說是公元前510年特為勾踐 (公元前464年卒，公元前496至464年為越王)
(d. 464; reigned as King of Yue from 496 until 464 BC)—was found sheathed in a 製作而成，配有黑漆木鞘。寶劍入鞘後嚴絲合縫，即便越王墓曾遇水災，墓內殘留了兩千
wooden scabbard fnished in black lacquer. The scabbard had a virtually air-tight ft 多年前的積水，但此劍出鞘之際仍光潔如新。
with the sword body. When unsheathed, the sword revealed an untarnished blade, even
2 詳見： 楊軍昌, 保羅傑特與 陳建立著作 《先秦金器》(北京： 文武出版社）， 2017年，
though the tomb had long ago fooded and had contained water for more than
2,000 years. 120頁, 圖版 3-14, 121頁, 圖版 3-15a。
3 詳見： 陝西省考古研究院, 上海博物館編, 《兩國封國論衡：陝西韓城出土芮國文物暨周
2 Yang Junchang, Paul Jett, and Chen Jianli, Gold in Ancient China: 2000-200 BC,
代封國考古學研究國際學術研討會論文集》, (上海: 上海古籍出版社), 第1版, 2014年，以
number four in the series Archaeometallurgy, (Beijing: Cultural Relics Press), 2017, p.
及 楊軍昌, 保羅傑特與陳建立著作 《先秦金器》， 2017年， 118-123頁。
120, fg. 3-14, p. 121, fg. 3-15a;
4 兩者的圖示可參考Carol Michaelson著作《Gilded Dragons: Buried Treasures
3 For additional information on the fnds at Liangdaicun, see: Institute of Archaeology
from China’s Golden Ages》頁30-31編號9及圖9a (倫敦：大英博物館信託基
of Shaanxi Province and Shanghai Museum, eds., The International Symposium on Rui
State Treasures from Hancheng, Shanxi Province (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Press), 1st 金，1999)。關於陝西寶雞益門村M2墓室的發掘資料，詳見《文物》1993年第10期頁
ed., 2014; also see: Yang, Jett, Chen, Gold in Ancient China, 2017, pp. 118-123 1-14。
5 其實早於公元前六世紀，華北已開始製作鏤雕精美蟠虺紋和嵌綠松石的青銅刀鞘，實例
4 For images of both pieces, see: Carol Michaelson, Gilded Dragons: Buried Treasures
可參考Emma C. Bunker、屈志仁及孫志新合著的《Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The
from China’s Golden Ages (London: Trustees of the British Museum), 1999, pp. 30-31,
no. 9 and fg. 9a. For information on the excavation of Tomb M2 at Yimen Village, Baoji, Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections》頁89-90編號54 (紐約：大都會
Shaanxi province, see: Wenwu, 1993, vol. 10, pp. 1-14. 藝術博物館，2002。康涅狄格州紐黑文及倫敦：耶魯大學出版社發行)。
6 這類猛禽鳥首與西伯利亞南部塞西亞的作品遙相呼應，詳見Roman Kenk著作《Grab-
5 In fact, openwork bronze scabbards with intricate interlaces and turquoise inlays were
funde der Skythenzeit aus Tuva, Süd-Sibirien》[西北利亞南部圖瓦境內發現的塞西
produced in north China at least as early as the sixth century BC; see, for example,
亞時期墓葬文物] 頁126圖22:42, 45 (慕尼黑：Beck，1986)。
Emma C. Bunker, James C.Y. Watt, and Zhixin Sun, Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The
Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of 7 詳見上述2002年出版的《Eastern Eurasian Steppes》頁90編號55。
Art; distributed by New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press), 2002, pp. 89-90,
no. 54. 8 詳見Jessica Rawson著作《Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual》編號34 (倫敦：大
英博物館出版社以大英博物館信託基金的名義與東安格利亞大學森寶利視覺藝術中心聯合
6 Such raptor heads might show a distant relationship with Scythian items for southern
出版，1987)。
Siberia; see: Roman Kenk, Grabfunde der Skythenzeit aus Tuva, Süd-Sibirien [Tomb
Finds of the Scythian Period from Tuva, South Siberia] (Munich: Beck), 1986, p. 126, fg. 9 該壺可參見羅頓 (Thomas Lawton) 著作《Chinese Art of the Warring States
22:42, 45. Period: Change and Continuity, 480–222 BC》頁26-27編號1 (華盛頓特區：史密
森尼博物院轄下弗利爾美術館，1982)，青銅鑑詳見頁28-29編號2。
7 Bunker, Watt, and Sun, Eastern Eurasian Steppes, 2002, p. 90, no. 55.
10 詳見羅頓前述著作《Chinese Art of the Warring States Period》頁30-31編號3。
8 Jessica Rawson, Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual (London: Published for the Trustees of
the British Museum in association with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University
of East Anglia, by British Museum Publications), 1987, no. 34.
9 Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity,
480–222 BC (Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution), 1982, pp.
26-27, no. 1 (for the hu jar), and pp. 28-29, no. 2 (for the jian basin).
10 Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, 1982, pp. 30-31, no. 3.
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