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Work ID
129301
Title
花東159
Corpus root
中國漢文
Macro region
中國
Period
商朝
Polity
Region
花園莊東地
Categories
商殷朝; 甲骨文; 出土文獻
() ()() (()) Divined on Guiwei: From the sixth day of this month...until the growing (> new) month, there will be an arrival south. Our lord read the crack and said, Should have an arrival (at) the intersection of the months; 277 (there will be captives) linked and bound up.278 1 Divined on Guiwei: Not likely to have arrival south (by this time). 1 277 Yao Xuans commentary to 262 reads as the name of a month, but she does not offer further explanation. Non-numerical month names are poorly understood in the oracle bone inscriptions and there are no other occurrences of this term elsewhere. The divination utter- ance creates time constraints, from the sixth day of the current month until the following month, and this leads me to suggest that ), which is the ancestral form of chou (- initial -rime) a bank between fields > to separate from, refers to time. 278 This word also occurs in a divination account about Qiang captives on 215.1. 188 | HYZ 161