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甲戌其[祝]叀(惠)豖用
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祝于白一牛用升歲且(祖)乙用子祝 一二三
祝于二牢用升歲且(祖)乙用子祝 一二三
乙亥升歲且(祖)乙二牢勿(物)牛白豭 鬯一子祝 二三
戊子歲匕(妣)庚一犬 一二
辛卯宜豕一才(在)入 一二
丁壬午丁各用 二三四
[子]祝
On Jiaxu, When [praying], it should be (about) castrated pigs. Used.
178 | HYZ 142
Pray about the white single head of cattle that will be used, ascending to sacrifice (to) Ancestor Yi.262 Used. Our lord prayed. 123
Pray about the two head of pen-raised cattle that will be used, ascending to sacrifice (to) Ancestor Yi. Used. Our lord prayed. 123
On Yihai, ascend and sacrifice (to) Ancestor Yi two head of pen-raised cat- tle, some variegated cattle, and some white boars, offer one bowl of aro- matic ale, (and) our lord will pray. 23
On Wuzi, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng one dog.263 12
On Xinmao, make viands (from) one pig. At Ru. 12
...His Highness. On day Renwu, His Highness will arrive. Used. 234
...[our lord] will pray. 262 On 178 the graph used to write “ascend” is zhi 陟. The Erya lists the following words as synonyms: zhi 騭. jia 假, ge 格, zhi 陟, ji 躋, deng 登, and sheng 陞也. I read sheng 升 here as 陞. The phrase sheng sui 升歲 occurs frequently in the divination accounts of Wu Ding, Zu Geng, and Zu Jia (period I-IIab), but only occurs in the HYZ OBI on this one shell. This suggests that the HYZ prince was not regularly tasked with performing this ritual action. The identification of 升 follows Jao Tsung-I (1959: 377), who calls attention to a parallel with the OBI phrase 陟歲. I read both 升歲and 陟歲 literally as [subject] ascends [to higher place] to make sacrifice; the alternative is that “sacrifice” is the object of these verbs read in the causative mode, “cause sacrifice to go up [to spirit recipient]”. 263 Ancestress Geng (451), Ancestor Wu (316↔355.5) and Child Gui (459.8) are the only ances- tors who received dog sacrifices in the Huayuanzhuang East divinations. HYZ 145 | 179