Abstract
Early in 1983 I saw an oracle bone in the British Museum with twenty-six characters, divided into four inscriptions. This bone, to be discussed in the following, is no. 2262 of Oracle Bone Collections in Great Britain (abbreviated hereafter as Yingcang). Two of the inscriptions were divinations about whether the Yin king should issue an order to Yi Yong "." These inscriptions belong to the period of the reigns of the Shang kings Lin Xin and Kang Ding. Although this figure does not appear in the extant literary records and this is the first occurrence of his name in the oracle bone inscriptions, there are almost one hundred inscriptions about sacrifices to the famous minister of the founder of the Shang dynasty, Yi Yin, and Yi is the clan name (shi) of both men. The discovery of in the oracle bone inscriptions is valuable comparative evidence for researching the clan name of the Yi lineage (zu) and their political position in the Shang dynasty.
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