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甲寅卜乙卯子其學商丁衍(侃)子 (占)曰其又(有) (禱) (艱)用子髀 一二三四五
丙辰歲匕(妣)己 一告髀 一
丙辰卜于匕(妣)己 (禦)子髀用 一二
丙辰歲匕(妣)己 一告子髀 二三四
Divined on Jiayin: On Yimao if our lord practices “Shang”, His Highness will be happy. Our lord read the crack(s) and said, “Should have prayer. Affliction.”491 Used. Lord Bi.492 12345 491 The graph is actually spelled chou 疇 + the phonetic zhou 肘. I read it as a variant of dao 禱 “pray”. An alternative is to read it 疇 (=shui 誰 “who, someone”; the Erya lists 疇，孰，and 誰 as synonyms) : Someone would likely be afflicted. HYZ 487.2, which is part of this divination set, records the exact same divination statement and has a complementary but different predic- tion, namely that the prince saw fault in one of the divination cracks. 492 This verification means that lord Bi was the one actually afflicted. This divination account was part of a three-shell set along with 487.1-2 and 150.1-3. This exact same verification also occurs on 487.2 and 150.3 with the same meaning that it has here. Reading the divinations as a 306 | HYZ 338
On Bingchen, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Ji one sow (and) report Bi. 1
Divined on Bingchen: To Ancestress Ji, make an exorcism rite (for) lord Bi. Used. 12
On Bingchen, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Ji one sow (and) report lord Bi. 234