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丁丑卜子 (禦)于匕(妣)甲 牛一又鬯一□巛(災)入商 (酒)才(在) 一二三四五六七八九十
丁丑卜子 (禦)匕(妣)甲 牛一鬯一用 一
乙酉歲
Divined on Dingchou: Our lord will make an exorcism to Ancestress Jia, (and) announce by written record (the sacrificial offerings of) one head of cattle and one bowl of aromatic ale;…calamity to enter Shang and make the ale libation. At Lu. 283 12345678910
Divined on Dingchou: Our lord will make an exorcism (to) Ancestress Jia, (and) announce by written record (the sacrificial offerings of) one head of cattle (and) one bowl of aromatic ale. Used. 1
On Yiyou, sacrifice... 283 The ten cracks made about this divination statement is the highest count in the entire corpus. (HYZ 310, a 9 cm x 7 cm scapula fragment, has a divination account with two cracks numbered 9 and 10.) The shell has a small hole-shaped fracture in between the words 一 “one” and 巛 “calamity”, and part of 巛has been nicked off. The ZSKY editors suggest that only a single graph is missing, and based on context the missing graph would likely have been the negative wang 亡 “not have”. HYZ 178 | 195