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何于丁屰(逆) 一
于母婦 一
其 (艱) 一
其 (圄)何
丁卜弗其夷何其 (艱) 一
庚卜才(在) 歲匕(妣)庚三 又(有)鬯二至 (禦) 百牛又五
庚寅子入亖(四) (璋*)于丁才(在)
He477 will be met by His Highness. 1
By our Mother Lady.478 1
There might be affliction. 1
(They) might confine He.
Divined on Ding: Assuming (they) are not going to pacify He, there might be affliction.479 1 476 This divination account can be synchronized with HJ 22172 + 22351. The only difference between the two shells is the addition of the postface “At Fu” in the HYZ account. 477 A man named He 何served as one of king Kang Ding’s diviners (period III OBI). Period I- III inscriptions record a “He Territory” (HJ 7001). Men from this lineage also held the positions of “bowman” (White 962) and “border guard” (HJ 26879); see Jao Tsung-I 1959: 1075-1097 and Han Jiangsu and Jiang Linchang 2010: 570-572. 478 The grammar of 何于丁逆: N1 + preposition + N2 + V, is parallel with 新馬于賈視 “new horses will be inspected by the trader” (HYZ 7). Here ni 逆means to meet in opposition. It suggests that, at this time, He was an enemy of Wu Ding. : The reading of this graph as writing the word yi 夷is after Lin Yun 2007. A recently discovered early Western Zhou bronze inscriptionfrom the reign of King Cheng 成王 called the He gui 簋 (Wenwu 2009.2) writes the graph as yi , plus “hill”: 唯八月公 殷年 “It was the 8th month, the year that the Duke pacified Yin”. The phrase 何 “Pacified He” occurs in Wu Ding’s divinations (HJ 17027v [Model Bin-diviner type]). HYZ 321 | 301
Divined on Geng, at Lai: Sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng three rams (and) have two bowls of aromatic ale to deliver the exorcism; announce by writ- ten record (sacrifice of) one hundred and five head of cattle.
On Gengyin, our lord will contribute four arc-ended jade tablets* to His Highness. At Lai.