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牛 一
乙卜 匕(妣)庚
丙卜 二
丁 入
牛 一
子
二十黑
...cattle... 1
Divined on Yi...Ancestress Geng.
Divined on Bing... 2
On Ding...enter... 240 Compare Qianbian 7.19.2: 在敦圉羌 “Qiang at Dun’s prison”. 241 There is no divination crack near this word, and this suggests it was a notation of some kind. ZSKY 2003 reads it as a name, and explains it as a delivery receipt. The same notations occur on 173 and 367. There are similar examples with the names Mao 卯 (23, 60, 146, 318, 396) and Ding 鼎 (249; on the verso side is the notation “30”). These three words only occur on the recto sides of turtle plastrons and are not written close to any divination cracks. Perhaps they referred to people—scribes or diviners, who were associated with the divination workshop; see
...cattle... 1
...our lord...
...twenty black...