The divination on this piece of oracle bone was made for rain praying. The character ![](http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~museum/upload/photos/P1258945201.jpg)
may refer to the image of burning a handicapped man to pray for rain. ![](http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~museum/upload/photos/P1258945309.jpg)
was performed as a rain praying ritual.
![](http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~museum/upload/photos/P1258945201.jpg)
![](http://museum.sinica.edu.tw/_upload/custom/4035f478e2194ef2.png)
![](http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~museum/upload/photos/P1258945309.jpg)
![](http://museum.sinica.edu.tw/_upload/custom/2285f478e5a3f0bd.png)
- Item No.
- R044474
- Period
- late shang
- Dimensions
- 8.2(L)×8.4(W) cm
- Excavated/Findspot
- Pit YH127, Anyang, Henan Province
- Materials
- Turtle Plastron