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Oracle Bone (Turtle Plastron) Ping-pien 469 (龜腹甲卜辭《丙》469 )

Resource Type:
Material:Turtle Plastron

Description:
The divination on this piece of oracle bone was made for rain praying. The character may refer to the image of burning a handicapped man to pray for rain. was performed as a rain praying ritual.

Date:
late shang

Format:
Length 8.2cm、widen 8.4cm

Coverage:
Pit YH127, Hsiao-t'un, Anyang, Henon

 

 

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

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