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anonymous: Chinese oracle bone  wikidata:Q122753866 reasonator:Q122753866
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Chinese oracle bone Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Chinese oracle bone Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Chinese oracle bone Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type oracle bone Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Chinese oracle bone, with an inscription recording a lunar eclipse. Modern scholars identify this as the lunar eclipse that occurred on the evening of 27 December 1192 BC.
Language Old Chinese Edit this at Wikidata
Date 12th century BC
date QS:P571,-1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
institution QS:P195,Q23308
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Or. 7694/1595v
Place of creation Shang dynasty Edit this at Wikidata
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七日己未斲庚申月又食 ["On the seventh day jǐwèi (day 56) cleaving into gēngshēn (day 57), the moon was eaten.]
References
  • Keightley, David N. (1978), Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-02969-0. p. 174, n. 19.
  • Zhang, Peiyu (2002), "Determining Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology through Astronomical Records in Historical Texts", Journal of East Asian Archaeology, 4: 335–357, p. 353.
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Catalogue entry: Or. 7694/1595

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