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乙卜貞賈壴又(有)口弗死 一
乙卜貞中周又(有)口弗死 一
乙卜貞二卜又(有)求(咎)隹(唯)見今又(有)心 (鬼)亡 (戾) 一
Divined on Yi, tested: Trader Zhu, 207 having mouth (sickness),208 is not go- ing to die from it. 1 206 Perhaps to be associated with 480.5. But see 87 too. 207 Trader Zhu occurs in Wu Ding’s divinations from both the Bin and Li diviner groups; see HJ 9650, Tunnan 2438 and Tunnan 1047. As the name of a lineage, Jao Tsung-I (2010: 11) reads it Peng 彭 (in Warring States script 壴writes the word 彭 (Baoshan, strip 1)) and suggests it was west-northwest of Shang and close to Zhou 周 (sw Shanxi) and the Horse Territory 馬方 (cen- tral west Shanxi); see Yingcang 2425, HJ 6 and Zhouyuan OBI H11:20 and H11:117. See too Han Jiangsu and Jiang Linchang 2010: 463-465. 208 I read the phrase you kou 有口as an abbreviation of you kou ji 有口疾 “there is/have mouth sickness”; see 149.8, 220.2 and 247.6. In the HYZ OBI the word “illness” is often omitted but im- HYZ 103 | 155
Divined on Yi, tested: Zhong Zhou, having mouth (sickness), is not going to die from it. 1
Divined on Yi, tested: The second divination crack has fault, 209 it has ap- peared (or: been seen).210 Presently, having a heart that is terrified,211 there will be no misfortune.212 1