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癸未卜今月六日 于生月又(有)至南子 (占)曰其又(有)至 月 (亂(攣)) 一
癸未卜亡其至南 一
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 Xuan’s commentary to 262 reads 月 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 疇 (定- initial 幽-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