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English: Oracle bone inscribed with the characters "xun wu jiu"
  • Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1046 B.C.)

This oracle bone is incomplete. A diviner asked the Shang king if there would be misfortune over the next ten days; the king replied that he had consulted the ancestor Xiaojia in a worship ceremony.

The characters are approximately 1cm tall.
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