By David N. Keightley
Old and archaeological research of the Shang Dynasty, 2000 B.C., concentrating on that societies perform of bone divination. an enormous research of Bronze Age chinese language tradition.
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2). The rubbings listed in tables 3 and 4 all reveal the scute pattern to a significant degree. , Ping-pien 280; 289; Yi-pien 34 26 . 55. Tung (1929), pp. 83-87; Ch'en Meng-chia (1956), p. 10; Chou Hung-hsiang (1969), p. 35. The hollows (sec. 5) were generally cut into the back or interior side of the shell. The inscriptions were written on the front, exterior side. Modern scholars refer to the front, head-end of the plastron as the top and to the rear, tail-end as the bottom. Right and left are defined from the viewpoint of one facing the front, exterior side of the plastron (cf.
4 ~ rn 'f' I ~ 1lO l::::::f MAR GIN A L NOT A T ION S distances. ]"),64 record far smaller numbers of bone or shell and usually contain the day-date. ) requisitioned from Yii ten (scapula) pairs. "65 Notations on bone using the verb =: outnumber those on shell by four to one, suggesting further that the Shang tended to take scapulas rather than turtle shells from regions close to their capita1. 66 Distinctions such as these may eventually throw light on the political economy of the Shang state.
54. For the number of shields and plates, see Malcolm A. Smith (193 I), p. 50. Fig. 3 shows the differing pattern of outer scutes and inner bony plates (ef. appendix I, sec. 2). The rubbings listed in tables 3 and 4 all reveal the scute pattern to a significant degree. , Ping-pien 280; 289; Yi-pien 34 26 . 55. Tung (1929), pp. 83-87; Ch'en Meng-chia (1956), p. 10; Chou Hung-hsiang (1969), p. 35. The hollows (sec. 5) were generally cut into the back or interior side of the shell. The inscriptions were written on the front, exterior side.