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Inscribed Bovid Bone I–pien 8672 (獸骨卜辭殘片《乙》8672)

Resource Identifier:
R043689

Resource Type:
Material: Bovid Bone

Description:
This is one of the few inscribed mammal bones unearthed in Pit YH127. This divination is about sacrificial rituals, hunting expeditions, crop harvesting, and rain. It might have been a piece used for practice.

Date:
Late Shang Dynasty

Format:
Length 22.8 cm、width 17.7cm

Coverage:
YH127,Hsiao-T'un, Anyang, Honan, China

 

 

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

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