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The King’s Menagerie: Animals in Oracle Bone Inscriptions
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The King’s Menagerie: Animals in Oracle Bone Inscriptions

There are no pictographs in oracle bone inscriptions more vivid than those formed of animal shapes. The current exhibition features animal scripts and paintings in oracle bone inscriptions, such as pigs, dogs, buffalos, goats, elephants, horses, deer, tigers, turtles, snakes, pheasants, and dragons. There are mythical creatures and actual species including domesticated and wild animals, which could be kept as livestock, used as sacrifices, or they may simply be pests. These crea
Inscribed Bovid Skull Chia 3939 Inscribed Bovid Talus I 8688 Inscribed Plastron Ping 0086 Inscribed Animal Bone Fragment Chia 2659+2716+2763 Inscribed Deer Skull Chia 3940 ​​​​Inscribed Deer Skull Chia 3941 Inscribed Plastron　I 507+Ping 284 Inscribed Animal Bone Chia 2422 Inscribed Animal Bone Fragment Chia 2367 Inscribed Animal Bone Fragment Chia 2928 Inscribed Plastron I 4603 Inscribed Plastron I 4718 Inscribed Animal Bone Fragment Chia 2336 Antler Object Chia 3942 Inscribed Animal Bone Fragment Chia 2624 Inscribed Plastron Fragment Chia 2224 Inscribed Plastron Fragment Chia 1961 ​​​​Inscribed Plastron Fragment Chia 0984 Inscribed Carapace I 4683