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Work
花园庄东地甲骨
Nation
商殷朝
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商殷朝,甲骨文
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HYZ 340.2
Source
Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
On Jiawu, make viands (from) one head of pen-raised cattle (and) behead one human. At [Ru]123 493 The phrase you you (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 () (also verb + nominalized verb) > deng ji (/) (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