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Object type Ox scapula
Description
English: Oracle bone from the Bīn 賓 group of diviners from period I, corresponding to the reign of King Wu Ding (late Shang dynasty).
Depicted part verso
Date circa 1200 BC
date QS:P571,-1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q1074318
Current location
China through the Ages, Exhibit 2
Place of creation Anyang, Henan Province, China
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王占曰㞢祟八日庚戌㞢各雲自東☐母昃亦㞢出虹自北飲于河 [King divined (will) have misfortune. (On the) eighth day, gēngxū (day 47), there were great clouds from the east ... In the afternoon a rainbow came out of the north and drank in the Hé (Yellow River).]
References
  • Keightley, David N. (2000) The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200–1045 B.C.), Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, p. 91 ISBN: 978-1-55729-070-0.
Source/Photographer Gary Lee Todd from Xinzheng, China 2011-09-01 12:36 https://www.flickr.com/photos/101561334@N08/9830574766/
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Heji 10405, Jinghua 4
Camera location39° 54′ 13.26″ N, 116° 23′ 41.76″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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