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Work
花园庄东地甲骨
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商殷朝
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商殷朝,甲骨文
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HYZ 223.10
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Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
Divined on Ji: Sacrifice some bulls (to) Ancestress Ji. Used. 1 338 Parallel syntax makes it clear that () and ( ) are variants writing the same word. I read both as bei cowrie; the latter form appears to add bi as a phonetic complement. The same word occurs again on 229. These two shells were buried close to each other in Pit H3 and originally formed a set. 226 | HYZ 224