皇城台的墙上砌着脸。待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending
有一张是倒着的。4a80accb38
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倒着的那张在右边 → 10 号
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还没起
这一屏是摆出来的：形照简报的拓本起，拓本上黑的当石面、白的当减下去的地，分界按灰度取，逐块对过拓本；各处高低是估的；横走的沟壁上那些细竖纹是拓本的纸纹，不是石头上的；贴着石缝的一圈和 10 号上五处看不清的地方留平；石色照简报写的颜色词取；两块石头照简报记的位置并排，下沿照简报的原位照片摆齐；四周的墙没有画，压在 11 号右上角的 9 号也没有画；光在你手里，不是哪一天的太阳。
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这一屏是摆出来的：形照简报的拓本起，拓本上黑的当石面、白的当减下去的地，分界按灰度取，逐块对过拓本；各处高低是估的；贴着石缝的一圈和左下角残掉的那一块留平；石色照简报写的颜色词取；它在墙上离地面 0.6 米，这一屏画不进地面，四周的墙也没有画；光在你手里，不是哪一天的太阳。
这一屏是摆出来的：形照简报的拓本起，拓本上黑的当石面、白的当减下去的地，分界按灰度取，逐块对过拓本；各处高低是估的；拓本上发灰、看不清的地方（脸颊、眉弓、虎身上的一些饰纹）留平；嘴部那个凹坑在拓本上和鼻旁的白连成一片，屏上分不出来；中部的断裂没有起；石色照简报写的颜色词取；它出自墙的倒塌堆积，没有离地多高可照，所以没有画地面和墙；光在你手里，不是哪一天的太阳。
这一屏是摆出来的：柱面照拓本摊平了；拓本顶上一条读不准，没有起；各处高低是估的；横走的沟壁上那些细竖纹是拓本的纸纹，不是石头上的；石色照简报写的颜色词取；它出自墙的倒塌堆积，没有离地多高可照，所以没有画地面和墙；光在你手里，不是哪一天的太阳。
11 号 · 棕灰色砂岩 · 长 267 厘米待票 / ticket pending
11 号石雕 · 棕灰色砂岩 · 长 267、高 43 厘米待票 / ticket pending
横砌在大台基南护墙中部偏下，离地面 5 厘米；右接 10 号，右上角压着 9 号；近中部有一道斜竖向的裂缝，没有起待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending dd541c8aab
形据简报图一六拓本 · 雕纹高 0.79～3.07 厘米，各处深浅为估abe0cd0ad0 待票 / ticket pending
10 号 · 青白色砂岩 · 人头倒置834ac797c9 4a80accb38
10 号石雕 · 青白色砂岩 · 长 56、高 27 厘米834ac797c9
横砌在南护墙中部偏下，左接 11 号，离地面 10 厘米；简报记：部分风化严重待票 / ticket pending be1a1456f6
形据简报图一五拓本，看不清的五处留平 · 雕纹高 1.07～1.44 厘米，各处深浅为估待票 / ticket pending 4a80accb38
30 号石雕 · 灰色砂岩 · 高 62 厘米578806e3aa 95f775927a 78dd8bc70e
30 号石雕 · 扁圆柱体，灰色砂岩 · 长径 22、短径 19、高 62 厘米578806e3aa 95f775927a 78dd8bc70e
出自大台基南护墙西部墙体的倒塌堆积578806e3aa
形据简报图二五拓本 · 雕纹高 0.98～2.08 厘米，各处深浅为估78e4a610b4 30cb7e8414 e8fe89bf00 bca7e732c6 417e959615
1 号 · 青黄色砂岩 · 长 109 厘米4b279edd6c
1 号石雕 · 青黄色砂岩 · 长 109、高 42 厘米4b279edd6c
横砌在南护墙东南角偏下，离东南角 1.2 米，离地面 0.6 米；左下角略残24e2e3d602 2b3498cd35 b7813bd4ab
形据简报拓本 · 雕纹高 0.61～1.13 厘米，各处深浅为估5f2a49d428
41 号 · 黄褐色砂岩 · 残长 137 厘米待票 / ticket pending
41 号石雕 · 黄褐色砂岩 · 残长 137、高 23 厘米待票 / ticket pending
出自南护墙中部墙体的倒塌堆积；中部竖向断裂，右端残；嘴部有一个三角形凹坑，简报说「似经琢损」5e0dbcadb4 8f9de1e5ff 51c2ee9cdc
形据简报拓本 · 雕纹高 0.9～1.36 厘米，各处深浅为估dd03ef92ab
皇城台是石峁城址的核心区域。39d30242c5
它顶上有一座石砌的大台基。d7aa27d717 2b01d916ab
大台基的南护墙，已经出土石雕 70 件。待票 / ticket pending
21 件还砌在墙面上，1 件立在墙前夹道的地面上，其余的出在墙的倒塌堆积里。待票 / ticket pending
发掘者说，它们出土时大多保存较好，图像清晰；少量残碎不全，或者风化得难以辨认。959e5ac6a9
简报挑了 18 件介绍。待票 / ticket pending
下面说到的，都在这 18 件里。
简报说到四种做法：减地浮雕、减地高浮雕、细线阴刻、圆雕。2ff2c9f9e8 e253600e95 b640b7fc31 382268c7ba
减地，是把图像四周的石面凿低，让图像留在高处。
28 号是细线阴刻，刻纹深 0.14～0.2 厘米。b640b7fc31
34 号是减地高浮雕，雕纹高 2.12～6.32 厘米。be06c9e549
图像表面有密集的凹点，发掘者说是琢打修整留下的。b270b47567
有正面的脸，有侧面的脸。待票 / ticket pending
5 号是一张单独的脸，高 15.5、宽 17.5 厘米；嘴角上翘，简报说「似呈微笑状」。e253600e95 f68c3a5173
也有动物：8 号是一对头朝外的 S 形动物，16 号是一条蛇，15 号那只，简报说形似蟾蜍。d8809c2f3d f523d60a3a 5fd2c7374b
41 号中间是一张脸，两边各卧一只虎。a2e3139c92 ea751d8803
34 号中间是牛头，两边各立一匹马，朝着牛头。527d6faa66 3158675ab7
有三件，简报读出了场面：26 号是「人射马」；18 号可能是「大人背小人」；6 号，推测是人骑牛。87328cf928 13c1d696b8 c05236a917
上面那一屏，是南护墙中部的墙脚。待票 / ticket pending
11 号长 267、高 43 厘米，离地面 5 厘米。待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending
中间是一个正面的人像，两边各一个侧面的人像，朝着中间。待票 / ticket pending 2f27777d61
中间那张脸，眼眶占了脸的三分之一左右，牙齿露在外面。300d13457b 0f6aaf3f48
10 号紧挨在它右边，上面刻的人头是倒置的。待票 / ticket pending 4a80accb38
简报只写了「倒置」，没有说为什么。
这是一句『没有』：我们读过的这份简报里没有解释，取不了票。
发掘者认为，大台基和这些石雕的使用年代不晚于龙山文化晚期，绝对年代约在公元前 2000 年，沿用到公元前 1800 年前后废弃。486aa8aec2
现在还砌在墙面上、或立在夹道地面上的，有 20 余块。77beeab63c
但发掘者说，这些石雕最原始的位置，还有较大的讨论空间。420c13cb8d
发掘者提的一种可能：它们来自皇城台上比大台基更早的高等级建筑；那座建筑毁弃以后，被重新砌进了大台基的护墙。f81d435e4b
另一种可能：它们一开始就砌在这道护墙上，当特殊的建材用。3ce60df711
发掘者自己说：这些推测尚待更多考古研究确认。94ea02ffdd
发掘者认为，墙面上嵌的石雕，与石峁的「藏玉于墙」和「人头奠基」有类似的精神内涵。45afd19244
他们认为，这些石雕与中国北方自红山文化以来的石雕传统有密切联系。045a1255ac
他们还认为，这些石雕可能在一定程度上影响了后来的东西：后石家河文化的玉器，二里头的绿松石龙、虎，甚至商周青铜礼器的纹饰。c5fbb84e70 964b21a56c e4d4411071
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这一章还不知道的事。
我们读过的简报没有说。
这是一句『没有』：我们读过的这份简报没有说这些脸是谁，取不了票。
记于 2026-11-14
发掘者：最原始的位置还有较大的讨论空间。420c13cb8d
记于 2026-11-14
简报只写了「倒置」。4a80accb38
记于 2026-11-14
简报：嘴部有一个三角形凹坑，似经琢损。51c2ee9cdc
记于 2026-11-14
出土 70 件，简报介绍 18 件。待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending
记于 2026-11-14
Faces are built into the wall of Huangchengtai.待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending
One of them is upside down.4a80accb38
Staged: the light is in your hand ⌄
Staged ⌄
light at 6.0° to the wall
Drag the light on the right, up or down. The number is its angle to the wall.
Tilt your phone, or drag the light on the right. The number is its angle to the wall.
The inverted one is to the right → no. 10
Turn your phone upside down to see it the right way up.
not raised yet
Staged: the shapes are raised from the report's rubbings, with black read as the stone's surface and white as the ground cut away; the boundary is set by a grey-level threshold and checked against the rubbing piece by piece; heights are estimated; the fine upright streaks on the walls of horizontal grooves are the paper grain of the rubbing, not marks on the stone; a margin along the joints, and five patches on no. 10 that cannot be read, are left flat; stone colours follow the report's colour words; the two stones sit side by side as the report records, their lower edges aligned after the report's in-situ photograph; the wall around them is not drawn, nor is no. 9, which overlaps the upper right corner of no. 11; the light is in your hand, not the sun of any day.
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Staged: the shape is raised from the report's rubbing, with black read as the stone's surface and white as the ground cut away; the boundary is set by a grey-level threshold and checked against the rubbing piece by piece; heights are estimated; a margin along the joints, and the damaged lower left corner, are left flat; the stone's colour follows the report's colour word; on the wall it sits 0.6 m above the ground, too far down to fit on this screen, and the wall around it is not drawn; the light is in your hand, not the sun of any day.
Staged: the shape is raised from the report's rubbing, with black read as the stone's surface and white as the ground cut away; the boundary is set by a grey-level threshold and checked against the rubbing piece by piece; heights are estimated; where the rubbing is grey and cannot be read (the cheeks, the brow, some of the markings on the tigers) the surface is left flat; the pit at the mouth runs together with the white beside the nose in the rubbing and cannot be told apart on screen; the break across the middle is not raised; the stone's colour follows the report's colour word; it came from the wall's collapse, with no height above the ground to go by, so neither ground nor wall is drawn; the light is in your hand, not the sun of any day.
Staged: the pillar's surface is unrolled flat, after the rubbing; a strip at the top we could not read stays dark; heights are estimated; the fine upright streaks on the walls of horizontal grooves are the paper grain of the rubbing, not marks on the stone; the stone's colour follows the report's colour word; it came from the wall's collapse, with no height above the ground to go by, so neither ground nor wall is drawn; the light is in your hand, not the sun of any day.
No. 11 · brown-grey sandstone · 267 cm long待票 / ticket pending
Carved stone no. 11 · brown-grey sandstone · 267 cm long, 43 cm high待票 / ticket pending
Set lengthwise low in the middle of the Great Platform's south revetment, 5 cm above the ground; no. 10 adjoins on the right, no. 9 overlaps its upper right corner; a slanting crack near the middle is not raised待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending dd541c8aab
Shape after the report's rubbing, fig. 16 · relief 0.79–3.07 cm high, mapped by estimateabe0cd0ad0 待票 / ticket pending
No. 10 · pale greenish sandstone · head inverted834ac797c9 4a80accb38
Carved stone no. 10 · pale greenish sandstone · 56 cm long, 27 cm high834ac797c9
Set lengthwise low in the middle of the south revetment, adjoining no. 11 on its left, 10 cm above the ground; the report notes heavy weathering in places待票 / ticket pending be1a1456f6
Shape after the report's rubbing, fig. 15; five unreadable patches left flat · relief 1.07–1.44 cm high, mapped by estimate待票 / ticket pending 4a80accb38
No. 30 · grey sandstone · 62 cm tall578806e3aa 95f775927a 78dd8bc70e
Carved stone no. 30 · flattened cylinder, grey sandstone · 22 × 19 cm, 62 cm tall578806e3aa 95f775927a 78dd8bc70e
From the collapse of the west section of the Great Platform's south revetment578806e3aa
Shape after the report's rubbing, fig. 25 · relief 0.98–2.08 cm high, mapped by estimate78e4a610b4 30cb7e8414 e8fe89bf00 bca7e732c6 417e959615
It stands at the end of the dark →
No. 1 · greenish-yellow sandstone · 109 cm long4b279edd6c
Carved stone no. 1 · greenish-yellow sandstone · 109 cm long, 42 cm high4b279edd6c
Set lengthwise low near the south-east corner of the south revetment, 1.2 m from the corner, 0.6 m above the ground; lower left corner slightly damaged24e2e3d602 2b3498cd35 b7813bd4ab
Shape after the report's rubbing · relief 0.61–1.13 cm high, mapped by estimate5f2a49d428
No. 41 · yellow-brown sandstone · 137 cm, broken待票 / ticket pending
Carved stone no. 41 · yellow-brown sandstone · 137 cm long as it survives, 23 cm high待票 / ticket pending
From the collapse of the middle section of the south revetment; broken across the middle, right end missing; a triangular pit at the mouth, which the report says looks chiselled away5e0dbcadb4 8f9de1e5ff 51c2ee9cdc
Shape after the report's rubbing · relief 0.9–1.36 cm high, mapped by estimatedd03ef92ab
Huangchengtai 皇城台 is the core of the Shimao site.39d30242c5
On its top stands a stone-faced terrace the excavators call the Great Platform.d7aa27d717 2b01d916ab
Seventy carved stones have come out of its south revetment so far.待票 / ticket pending
Twenty-one were still set in the wall face and one stood upright on the floor of the corridor in front of it; the rest lay in the wall's collapse.待票 / ticket pending
Most came out well preserved and clear to read, the excavators report; a few were broken or weathered past reading.959e5ac6a9
Their report describes eighteen of them.待票 / ticket pending
Everything below comes from those eighteen.
The report names four ways of working: relief with the ground cut away, the same in high relief, fine incised line, and carving in the round.2ff2c9f9e8 e253600e95 b640b7fc31 382268c7ba
Cutting away the ground means lowering the stone around a figure so that the figure is left standing.
No. 28 is incised; its lines are 0.14–0.2 cm deep.b640b7fc31
No. 34 is in high relief, standing 2.12–6.32 cm proud of the ground.be06c9e549
The carved surfaces are covered with small pits, which the excavators read as the marks of pecking and dressing.b270b47567
There are faces seen from the front and faces in profile.待票 / ticket pending
No. 5 is a single face, 15.5 cm high and 17.5 cm wide; the corners of its mouth turn up, and the report reads this as something like a smile.e253600e95 f68c3a5173
There are animals: on no. 8 a pair of S-shaped creatures with their heads turned outward, on no. 16 a snake, and on no. 15 a creature the report likens to a toad.d8809c2f3d f523d60a3a 5fd2c7374b
On no. 41 a face sits between two crouching tigers.a2e3139c92 ea751d8803
On no. 34 an ox head sits between two standing horses that face it.527d6faa66 3158675ab7
In three of them the report reads a scene: on no. 26 a man shooting at a horse; on no. 18, possibly, a large figure carrying a small one on its back; on no. 6, by inference, a man riding an ox.87328cf928 13c1d696b8 c05236a917
The screen above shows the foot of the south revetment, near its middle.待票 / ticket pending
No. 11 is 267 cm long and 43 cm high, and sits 5 cm above the ground.待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending
A figure faces straight out from its centre; on either side a figure in profile turns toward it.待票 / ticket pending 2f27777d61
On the central face the eye sockets take up about a third of the face, and the teeth show.300d13457b 0f6aaf3f48
No. 10 adjoins it on the right; the head carved on it is upside down.待票 / ticket pending 4a80accb38
The report records that it is inverted and does not say why.
This is a statement of absence: the report we read gives no explanation, so there is no ticket to take.
The excavators put the use of the platform and its carvings no later than the late Longshan period, at about 2000 BCE, continuing until it was abandoned around 1800 BCE.486aa8aec2
More than twenty stones are still set in the wall face or standing on the corridor floor.77beeab63c
Even so, the excavators write, where the carvings originally stood is still very much open.420c13cb8d
One possibility they raise: the stones come from a high-status building on Huangchengtai older than the platform, and were built into the platform's revetment after that building was abandoned.f81d435e4b
The other: they were set in this wall from the start, as a special kind of building stone.3ce60df711
By their own account, these conjectures still await confirmation from further work.94ea02ffdd
The excavators see the carvings set in the wall as akin in spirit to two other things found at Shimao: jade hidden inside walls, and human heads laid under foundations.45afd19244
They tie the carvings to a tradition of stone carving in northern China that goes back to the Hongshan culture.045a1255ac
And they suggest the carvings may have influenced, to some degree, things made later: the jades of the post-Shijiahe culture, the turquoise dragon and tiger of Erlitou, even the decoration of Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes.c5fbb84e70 964b21a56c e4d4411071
The sources this chapter draws on.
our gloss: Remains of the Great Platform at Huangchengtai, Shimao site, Shenmu, Shaanxi
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What this chapter does not know.
The report we read does not say.
This is a statement of absence: the report we read does not say who the faces are, so there is no ticket to take.
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Its excavators: where they originally stood is still open.420c13cb8d
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The report records only that it is inverted.4a80accb38
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The report: a triangular pit at the mouth that looks chiselled.51c2ee9cdc
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Seventy found; the report describes eighteen.待票 / ticket pending 待票 / ticket pending
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