An inscription on the famous so-called “Lufang large jade ge-halberd head” from Fu Hao’s tomb at Yinxu has long been transcribed as “Lufang □ (Gua?) sent in five ge-halberd.” Scholars believed it was the ge-halberd that Lufang gave as a tribute to the Shang. I argue that the graph , rather than its generally accepted transcription as ge 戈 “halberd”, is equivalent to the graph seen in Shang oracle bones and bronze inscriptions. Palaeographic evidence supports the identification of the with the character lian 聯. Based on the context in which the lian is used in oracle bones and late Shang “Yi Mao zun” bronze inscription, I suggest that the lian denotes a string of jade beads or jade tubes that attached to ritual jade weapons such as ge, gui, and qi. The custom of attaching lian to jade weapons as an ornament is not found in received texts, but there are traces in archaeological findings. Therefore, the “Lufang jade ge” inscription should be interpreted as “Lufang Gua sent in (a ge with) five lian. ”

「盧方」玉戈; (聯);䋙(珥);殷周玉器

“Lufang”jadege,lian (聯),er䋙(珥),YinandZhoujadewares