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Object type Ox scapula
Description
English: Oracle bone recording divinations by Zhēng 爭, one of the Bīn 賓 group of diviners from period I, corresponding to the reign of King Wu Ding (late Shang dynasty).
Date circa 1200 BC
date QS:P571,-1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Dimensions height: 30.8 cm (12.1 in); width: 19 cm (7.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,30.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,19U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1074318
Place of creation Anyang, Henan Province, China
Inscriptions
  • top:

☐☐卜，☐，貞[旬]亡𡆥。 [... divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters.]

  • left:

癸卯卜，爭，貞旬亡𡆥。甲辰☐大掫風，之曰皿，乙巳[疛]𰙫(⿱止幸)☐五人。五月在[𦎧]。 [guǐmǎo (day 40) Zheng divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters. jiǎchén (day 41) ... strong gale, evening cleaved to yǐsì (day 42), captured ... five people. Fifth month, in Dun.]

  • middle:

癸丑卜，爭，貞旬亡𡆥。王𰉏(⿴囗占)曰：有祟，有夢。甲寅，允有來艱。左告曰：有往芻自𰤹(⿱汄皿)，十人又二。 [guǐchǒu (day 50) Zheng divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters. ...]

  • right:
癸丑卜，爭，貞旬亡𡆥。三日乙卯[有]𰌌(⿰壴女)艱，單邑豊[尿]于彔……丁已貍子豊尿……鬼亦得疾。 [guǐchǒu (day 50) Zheng divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters. Third day, yǐmǎo (day 52) ... dīngsì (day 54) ... The Gui will also have sickness.]
References
  • Hu Houxuan 胡厚宣 , ed. (2009) Jiǎgǔwén héjí shìwén 甲骨文合集释文, China Social Sciences Press ISBN: 978-7-5004-8462-2.
  • Ma Rusen 馬如森 (2010) Jiǎgǔ jīnwén tàběn 甲骨金文拓本, Shanghai University Press ISBN: 978-7-81118-651-2.
  • 大型牛骨刻辞 (in Chinese). National Museum of China. Retrieved on 27 July 2024.
  • Liu, Xueshun (2005) The first known Chinese calendar: A reconstruction by the synchronic evidential approach (PhD thesis)[1], University of British Columbia, DOI:10.14288/1.0099806, page 123
  • Chen, Kuang Yu; Zhenhao Song; Yuan Liu; Matthew Anderson (2020) Reading of Shāng Inscriptions, Springer, Shanghai People's Publishing House, pp. 41–43 ISBN: 978-981-15-6213-6.
Source/Photographer BabelStone
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current23:01, 28 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 23:01, 28 September 20151,733 × 2,669 (891 KB)Cold Season (talk | contribs)that's hardly clean, a poor job on the edges etc
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