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Work
花园庄东地甲骨
Nation
商殷朝
Categories
商殷朝,甲骨文
Catalog
HYZ 336.1
Source
Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
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 + the phonetic zhou . I read it as a variant of dao pray. An alternative is to read it (=shui who, someone; the Erya lists and 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