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甲辰歲癸子牡一 二
丙辰卜 又(有)取弗死 一
庚申歲匕(妣)庚小 鬯一且(祖)乙 (延)子鄉(饗) 一
甲子卜貞 中周妾不死 一二
甲子卜 其死 一二
On Jiachen, sacrifice (to) Gui Child one bull. 1
On Jiachen, sacrifice (to) Gui Child one bull. 2
Divined on Bingchen: Jin,480 having a pick up,481 is not going to die. 1
On Gengshen, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some small pen-raised sheep (and) offer one bowl of aromatic ale. Continued from Ancestor Yi. Our lord feasted. 1
Divined on Jiazi, testing: Si,482 Zhong Zhou’s consort, is not going to die.483 12 480 ZSKY 2003 reads ; Sun Yabing (2011a: 193, note 1) emends 481 取functions as a noun here. This word occurs eight times in the HYZ OBI, and its objects are living people, land and materials. Examples are: 取 (39.17) “procure Hu (name),” 取田 (80.1) “procure fields”, 取紤 (286.6) “procure tapestries”, and 取有車 (416.10) “procure the chariot(s)”. Compare Bingbian 557.3: 以有取, which Kenichi-Takashima (2010: 1.749) trans- lates “Hua will bring what (he) took”. 482 This name is also seen on royal inscriptions; see HJ 6197, 2866 and HJ 2869r. 483 A comparison between the syntax of this divination with divination (3) above suggests that si 死after the negative fu 弗is to be read transitively, and that its object was the preposi- tioned verb phrase “having a pick up”. 302 | HYZ 324
Divined on Jiazi: Si is likely to die. 12