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Unearthed Jades in China, vol. 7, Beijing, 2005, pl. 23; as well as a group, varying in design, excavated from several locations in
southern China, illustrated in Yang Boda, ed., Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 1, Shijiazhuang,
2005, nos. 261-264 and 266-271.

The function of this type of fittings from the Liangzhu Culture, however, long remained a mystery until the very end of the last
millennium, when a related jade fitting was discovered attached to the end of an ivory comb as a handle, in a tomb in Zhoujiabang,
Haiyan, Zhejiang province in 1999; see the exhibition catalogue Liangzhu yu zhongguo gudai. yuqi xianshide wuqiannian wenming
[Liangzhu and ancient China. The 5000 years of jade civilization], Beijing, 2019, p. 112, where it is also noted that these comb
handles have been exclusively found in the tombs of aristocrats, and each tomb only contains one handle, which are always
positioned near the head of the buried person, p. 113.

此類形制玉器多出土自良渚文化遺址，如見一例，江蘇昆山昭陵山77號墓出土，現藏於南京博物院，載於古方，《中國出土玉器全集》，
卷7，北京，2005年，圖版23；另比一組作例，制式各異，載於楊伯達編，《中國玉器全集（上）》，石家莊，2005年，編號261至264
及266至271。

此類良渚玉器的實際用途，長久以來並不明確，直至1999年浙江海鹽縣周家濱古墓出土了一件同類玉器，出土時帶有象牙梳齒，方知此類
玉件應為梳背，詳見展覽圖錄《良渚與中國古代•玉器顯示的五千年文明》，北京，2019年，頁112，作者論述，此類玉梳背往往僅見於貴
族墓，每墓只一件，均位於墓主頭部，頁113。

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