故宫博物院藏一版谢伯殳龟腹甲刻辞试读

A Piece of Oracle Inscription Collected by The Palace Museum from Xie Boshu

故宫博物院所收的一版谢伯殳旧藏龟腹甲,曾著录于《合集》(19769)等书,以往著录拓片不甚清晰,释文均拟作两条卜辞。从原甲照片来看,应为三条卜辞。其中第二条卜辞中"■老"即"肇老","肇"义为"招致","老"表示"将死"之义。"壬寅羌甘■"为验辞,表示壬寅这天羌甘去世。通过卜辞排比,本文认为羌甘是羌族在甘地的一个分支,在武丁中期左右被商王征服。

The analysis based on high-definition images finds that the oracle inscription collected by the Palace Museum from the hand of Xie Boshu and included in The Compilation of Oracle Inscriptions(Hé Jí(19769)) and other volumes actually bears three pieces of messages on divination altogether rather than two pieces as it used to be considered. Specifically, the characters of ’■老’ read ’肇老’(zhào lǎo).’肇(zhào)’ means ’beget or cause’ and ’老’(lǎo) means ’dying’. The characters of ’壬寅羌甘■’ are text(Yàncí in Chinese pinyin) to confirm the case that 羌甘(qiānggān) died on the day of 壬寅(rényín). It is deduced by the divinations that 羌甘(qiānggān) people residing in 甘 region but conquered in the middle of King Wu Ding(武丁) period is a branch originated from Qiang(羌) tribe,.