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Root / 中國漢文 / clean / 商殷朝 / 商 / 甲骨文 / 殷墟 / 花園莊東地 / H3 / 花東340
癸巳宜牝一才(在)入 一二
甲午宜一牢伐一人才(在) [入] 一二三
(暮) (酒)宜一牢伐一人用 一二
On Guisi, make (or: provide) viands (from) one cow. At Ru. 12
On Jiawu, make viands (from) one head of pen-raised cattle (and) behead one human. At [Ru]…123 493 The phrase you you 又友 (verb + nominalized verb) in the initial divination in this series attempted to determine whether or not to add something else to the sacrifice of mountain rams. The subsequent divinations, based on a positive judgment, continued and proposed the animal type, “wild boar”. A comparable divination morphology occurs with you deng 又(有)登 (also verb + nominalized verb) > deng ji 登祭(/穄) (verb + direct object) (265.5-6): “On Xinwei, sacri- ficing (to) Ancestress Geng, have (> add) a (cereal) raising. Used” ‖ “On Xinwei, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng, make an announcement, have (> add) the dispensed aromatic ale, our lord will pray, and raise sacrificial items (/millet).” The initial divination in this sequence proposed to pair another offering with the sacrifice; the subsequent divination then identified a specific object. 308 | HYZ 345
At dusk libate ale, (then) make viands (from) one head of pen-raised cattle (and) behead one human. Used. 12