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戊辰卜子其 (以) (磬)妾于 (王婦)好若 一二三四五
戠(待)用 一二三四五
庚午卜子其 (以) (磬)妾于 (王婦)好若 一二三
戠(待)用 一二三
辛未歲匕(妣)庚 又(有) (登)用 二
辛未歲匕(妣)庚小 告又(有) (肇)鬯子祝(登)祭 一二三四五
辛未歲匕(妣)庚先暮牛 (殺)迺 (殺)小 用
辛未宜 一才(在)入卯又(有) (肇)鬯 一二三
辛未歲匕(妣)庚小 用 一
辛未歲匕(妣)庚小 告又(有) (肇)鬯子祝(登)祭 一
Divined on Wuchen: If our lord takes female servants who will play chime stones399 to His Majesty’s Lady Hao, (it) will be favorable. 12345 397 This delivery receipt is written on the lower left bridge of the recto side. The handwriting is crude, just like the notation “Dancer Jia presents one” on 226. Comparisons can also be made with the handwriting of the receipts on 502r and 226r. Sun Yabing (2011a: 253, note 7) locates Zhi 制in Xingyang county, Henan 河南省滎陽縣. 398 HYZ 102 records Trader Zhu having mouth sickness. 399 I read “chime stones” as a musical instrument and “female servants” as the musicians who will play them for Lady Hao. 磬妾 is comparable to 琡羌 “Lapidary Qiang” (241.11); see
Wait. Used. 12345
Divined on Gengwu: If our lord takes female servants who will play chime stones to His Majesty’s Lady Hao, (it) will be favorable. 123
Wait. Used. 123
On Xinwei, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some pen-raised sheep, and have (> add) a (cereal) raising. Used. 2
On Xinwei, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some small pen-raised sheep, make announcements, have (> offer) the dispensed aromatic ale,400 our lord will pray, (and) raise (other) sacrificial items.401 12345
On Xinwei, in sacrificing (to) Ancestress Geng, first Mu’s cattle402 will be killed, and then kill the small pen-raised sheep. Used.
On Xinwei, prepare (or: provide) viands from one ewe. At Ru. Butchered (it) and added (> had) the dispensed aromatic ale. 123
On Xinwei, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some small pen-raised sheep…Used..1
On Xinwei, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some small pen-raised sheep, make announcements, have (> offer) the dispensed aromatic ale, our lord will pray, (and) raise (other) sacrificial items. 1 alternative readings. It is possible to take chime stones and female servants as two separate things; the prince will bring both to Lady Hao. A second possible reading is that Qing is the name of a place, and here modifies female servants; Li Xueqin (2008: 171-174) locates Qing 磬 in the vicinity of Qinyang, Henan 河南沁陽. 400 The phrase “you zhao chang 又(有)肇鬯” is different from you chang 又(有)鬯 “have/add aromatic ale”. It only occurs in divinations on this shell. It is comparable to you zhao chen 有肇 臣 in the divination statement 辛卜: 子其又(有)肇臣自 “Divined on Xin: Our lord will likely have servitors that are dispensed from….” (257.18). The aromatic ale would presumably have been dispensed to the protagonist from either the king or the queen. Other accounts mention him requesting and using millet from them for ritual events like this one (363.3, 379.1). 401 This is the most complete list of activities for an ancestor’s weekly worship in the entire corpus. In all, five activities are listed: animal sacrifice, reporting, offering drink, praying, and the offering of other “sacrificial items” that likely included a grain-type staple food (millet). I am not sure how exactly these actitivies were coordinated, and so I translate them one by one in order. 262 | HYZ 267