Four fragmentary Han bamboo slips preserve parts of invocations for the well-being of horses. They were excavated at Jianshui Jinguan 肩水金關, a Han-dynasty frontier checkpoint on the Heihe 黑河 in present-day Jinta County, Gansu. The fragments mention ritual offerings and ask that horses be spared ailments of the skin and coat, flanks, nose and eyes. Related invocations survive among the Shuihudi 睡虎地 and Zhangjiashan 張家山 manuscripts.
□ marks an unreadable character, ［ ］ encloses a proposed restoration, and …… marks a break in the surviving text.
73EJT11:5
不蚤（早）不莫（暮），得主君閒徦（？—暇）。肥豚□乳、黍飯清酒，至主君所。主君□方□□□
73EJT11:23
［毋予□疾，以□］脊強；毋予皮毛疾，以幣身剛；毋予脅疾，以成［身張］
73EJT24:976
……之央；毋予鼻疾……
73EJT26:119
……草英；毋予目疾，令視精……
The first two readings follow Liu Jiao 劉嬌, 〈讀肩水金關漢簡「馬禖祝辭」小札〉. Yao Lei 姚磊 reads 上 before 方 on slip 11:5. On slip 11:23, Liu suggests reading 幣 as 敝 or 弊, in the sense of 盡. The last two readings follow the transcriptions in Early China, which cite the expanded 2017 version of Liu’s article, p. 396.