牛肩胛颈左右卜辞的契刻有先后顺序,即无论左右肩胛颈,靠近切去臼角有切口一边的刻辞在先。《甲骨文合集释文》基本上按照刻辞的干支所间距的天数来排序,有时也根据正反贞、刻辞是否完整清晰来排序,但是这些作法不能正确地反映刻辞本来的先后顺序。因此,笔者全面检视了《甲骨文合集》1—6册的牛肩胛颈刻辞,按照“靠近切口一边的刻辞在先”这一规律,将《甲骨文合集释文》排序有误的重新进行了排序。
Oracle inscriptions in bovid scapulas were engraved by certainregularity, that is no matter left bovid scapulas or right bovid scapulas. Oracleinscriptions that closed to the cut were first engraved. JiaguwenHejiShiwen甲骨文合集释文 usually arranged its order according to intervals betweensexagenary cycle, and sometimes according to whether the question is positiveor negative and whether the oracle inscription is integrated, but these ways can’t correctly reveal the order of oracle inscriptions. Thus, the writers thoroughlysurveyed bovid scapulas in JiaguwenHeji甲骨文合集 Book 1 to 6 and reordered the oracle inscriptions that were mistakenly ordered in JiaguwenHejiShiwen甲骨文合集释文according to oracle inscriptions that closed to the cut were first engraved.