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乙未卜子 (宿)才(在) 夂(終)夕□□自□子占曰不[ (擒)] 一
乙未卜才(在) 丙[不雨]子占曰不其雨 (孚)
Divined on Yiwei: Our lord spends the night at Fu*. The entire even- ing…from…Our lord read the crack and said, “Will not [catch] (anything).” 1
Divined on Yiwei, at Fu*: [Day] Bing [is not going to rain]. Our lord read the crack and said, “It should not rain.” Trusted.63 62 The graph is composed of zhi 止 “foot” on top of tu 土 “earth”. It is not seen elsewhere in Shang-Western Zhou writing, but the Houma convenant texts (HMMS 16:3 [宗盟类]) has a similar graph written that Zhang Jie (2006: 32) reads wei 違 “contrary”. writes the word 孚 “trust”; see Qiu Xigui 2012: 1.449-460. I further agree with Qiu that fu 孚 and bu fu 不孚 “not trusted” were judgments. (He calls them fu ci 孚辭 “statements of truth”.) The HYZ OBI also have the prognostications wu you fu 毋有孚 “must not be trusted” (252.3) and ci fu 茲孚“trust this” (173.3). Scholars previously read this graph as spelling the word yu 御 “defend” or “lustrate”, but in HYZ script there is a clear distinction between the two: (孚)： (87; carapace); Exactly what word wrote is still unknown, but there is a graph written in the Shanghai Museum copy of Black Jacket 緇衣 (ShangBo 1) that resembles it. occurs in a phrase that in the received Liji 禮記version of the text has fu 孚. Several different graphs are used in Han and 94 | HYZ 12
H3:880
Yes H3:508
426 | Appendix I: Raw Data Catalog No. Excavation No. State of Preserva- tion (In Chinese) Length (cm) Width (cm) Divination crack in- scribed (Yes) Color Used to Fill in In- scription (Black/Red) Erasures (Yes) Material (unstated implies turtle plastron recto) Rejoin with H3:1330
H3:623
Yes Black H3:1203
Yes H3:485
Yes Red H3:1219 Yes H3:1218