What can inscriptions from Anyang tell us about regional interaction?. Adam Smith UCLA. The “location clause” (HD10). Day 32, cracking, at. Spending the night... (HD10). Day 32, cracking, Zi spends the wh o le night at. Extended stays and movement between localities. HD480 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What can inscriptions from Anyang tell us about regional interaction?
Adam Smith
UCLA
The “location clause” (HD10)
Day 32, cracking, at ...
Spending the night... (HD10)
Day 32, cracking, Zi spends the whole night at ...
Extended stays and movement between localities
HD480
Day 3: “At , coming hunting from .”
Days 10 and 11: “At .”
Day 13: “At , coming hunting from .”
Reconstructed trajectory #1
1 or 2 day’s travel
Where is ? (1)
• HJ24347
• “Day 38 cracking, Xing divines: if the King goes from to , there will be no disaster.”
• Day 40 ... from to ... At .
• Day 46 ... from to ...
Reconstructed trajectory #2
< 2 day’s travel
< 7 day’s travel
1 or 2 day’s travel
Where is ? (2)
雇 hu 扈 Hu 《春秋》
“ 今河南省原陽縣原武鎮。”麥 來 Lai 《左傳》
“ 今鄭州市以東的花園口一帶。”
Where is ?
扈來
HD7 HD37 HD467
34
35
36
37
Synchronies between plastrons
Reconstructed trajectory #3
1 day
1 day1 day
≤ 3 days
1 ~ 3 days
Where are and ?
寧 《左傳》
“ 今河南省獲嘉縣。”
我 儀封 《論語》
“ 今(河南省)蘭攷縣東的儀封鎮。”
Where are and ?
寧
儀封
70-80 miles
Gift exchange involving Fu Hao; activities involving an altar (?) to Grandmother Geng, and an Eastern Hall ( 東館 ); sacrifice to Grandmother Geng; libation of “new wine” to Ancestor Jia.
(plastron receipts)
archery
archery
horse exchange and procurement, ancestral sacrifice, archery/hunting