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丁丑歲且(祖)乙黑牝一卯 (𦞤)子 (占)曰未其又(有)至 (艱)其戊用
戊寅卜子[ (禦)]又(有)[口]疾于[匕(妣)庚] 牝 一
甲申歲且(祖)甲豭一叀(惠) 祝用 一
甲申歲且(祖)甲豭一 一
弜(勿)又鬯用 一
甲申卜叀(惠)配(妃)乎(呼)曰帚(婦)好告白屯(純)用 一
□卜子其入白屯(純)若 一
乙酉卜乎(呼) (微) (鑊)若用 一
乙酉卜乎(呼) (微) (鑊)若用 一二
On Dingchou, sacrifice (to) Ancestor Yi one black cow (and) cut apart the cranium. Our lord read the crack and said, “Not yet, (or) there might be (risk) reaching (the point of) affliction. Should (do it) on an Wu day.” Used.333 333 This divination account can be synchronized with 49 and concerns worship and sacrificial offerings to Ancestor Ding, Ancestor Yi’s father and the protagonist’s great-grandfather. Wor- ship and offerings to Ancestor Ding were fixed to take place weekly on day Ding, but the prog- nostication predicted affliction for the prince should rites be carried out on the proposed Ding- HYZ 220 | 223
Divined on Wuyin: Our lord [will make an exorcism rite] for those with mouth illness to [Ancestress Geng], (and) announce (it along with the sac- rifice of) cows by written record. 1
On Jiashen, when sacrificing (to) Ancestor Jia one boar, it should be [name] who prays. Used. 1
On Jiashen, sacrifice (to) Ancestor Jia one boar. 1
Do not add (or: have) aromatic ale. Used. 1
Divined on Jiashen: It should be (our lord’s) spouse who is called to ad- dress Lady Hao, reporting the white textiles.334 Used.335 1
…divined: If our lord contributes white textiles, (it) will be favorable. 1
Divined on Yiyou: Calling Wei to cook336 will be favorable. Used. 1 chou (day 14/60). It was instead to be delayed until an Wu day, the closest one being the fol- lowing day, Wuyin (day 15/60). 334 There are multiple interpretations of bai tun 白屯. The first is to read 白as it is, as the color term “white”, and 屯as a rebus for and as ancestral form of 純 “hem”.純often occurs in the gift registries of Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, as in: 玄衣 屯(純) (Hu gui gai 虎簋蓋) “black jacket with white hem” (Edward Shaughnessy 2001-2002: 73-98); Wang Tao (2007: 548) translates it “white textiles.” See other instances at Yin Zhou jinwen jicheng yinde 3892: 1106- 1109. A second reading, proposed by Cai Zhemao 2007, is to read 白as a misspelling of 百 “hundred” and 屯as the name of a people—“one hundred Tun”. I disagree with reading 白 as though it wrote 百 “hundred”. If 屯did in fact refer to a tribal or ethnic group, then it is compa- rable with bai Qiang 白羌 “White Qiang” (HJ 3410), which meant Qiang people with white skin (Qiu Xigui 2012: 1.307). 335 Divinations on HYZ 5, dated Yihai (day 12/60), concern whether or not the protagonist’s spouse should be dispatched to report to Lady Hao. Perhaps this Jiashen (day 21/60) day divi- nation referred to the same dispatch. 224 | HYZ 222
Divined on Yiyou: Calling Wei to cook will be favorable. Used. 12