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叀(惠) (微)□又(有) (瞿)若 一
癸亥歲癸子 二
癸亥歲癸子 一 一
丙卜子其 (往)于田弜(勿)由祼若用 一二
丙寅卜賈馬[異]弗馬 一
丙寅其 (禦)隹(唯)賈視馬于癸子叀(惠)一伐一牛一鬯 夢用 一二
丁卯卜子其 (往)田从 西 冓(遘) (獸)子 (占)曰不三一(孚) 一二三
It should be Wei...have lances*, (for) will be favorable. 1
On Guihai, sacrifice (to) Gui Child. 2
On Guihai, sacrifice (to) Gui Child one ewe. 1 modifies “large jade tablets” and refers to their point of origin. The graph is an alterna- tive form to write the name of the Zhou 舟 lineage, and undoubtedly is to be associated with Zhou Long 舟嚨, who reported a jade delivery to the king on 255. 431 is a pictograph of a spider (=zhu 蛛) (Li Yanong [1950] 2001: 3. 283c). As a verb, it writes the word shu 殊 “cut off > to kill”/zhu 誅 “kill, punish” (Jin Xiangheng 金祥恆 [1970] 2001: 6. 161d-162a). Variant spellings in Shang script add the phonetic shu 束 (HJ 36417, White 1381) and the classifier si 死 “die” (White 959). The toponym Zhu 邾 (located in southern Shandong dur- ing the Western Zhou period) is written with “spider” + the phonetic zhu 朱 in Western Zhou script. HYZ 290 | 281
Divined on Bing: If our lord goes to the fields, (he) ought not (go) from the ale libation,432 (for) it will be favorable. Used. 12
Divined on Bingyin: (As for) trading horses, [perhaps]433 no horses will be traded for.434 1
On Bingyin, when making an exorcism rite, it being for the trader-inspected horses to Gui Child,435 it should be one human beheading, one head of cattle, (and) one bowl of aromatic ale that are announced by written record (as sacrificial offerings along with) the dream.436 Used. 12
Divined on Dingmao: If our lord goes to hunt from Qin’s western trails, (he) will encounter wild animals. Our lord read the crack(s) and said, “Not go- ing to be three. One.” Trusted.437 123