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Work ID
129324
Title
花東182
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
12 || 234 301 The preface in this divination account is . The text before the word zhen tested is the result of the previous divinations (32)-(33). The diviner is testing why the previous divinations about sacrificing some small pen-raised sheep to Child Gui were unlucky. Prefaces in this format are rare (see HYZ 123 + Jiyi 561), and in this particular case the reason it was recorded might have had to do with orientation and the layout of the inscriptions, since the location of (35) is far removed from the divinations it intended to test on this densely in- scribed bone. HYZ 183-HYZ 184 | 203 HYZ 183-HYZ 184