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貞夫 一
Tested: (about) Fu.157 1 155 Zhan Yinxin (2006: 207-208) equates this river with the Yu 湡. The Shuowen says it comes out from the west of Zhao 趙 (southwest Shanxi). 156 Divinations (3)-(4) form a four-shell set along with 247↔255↔352. 255 records the recipi- ent of the exorcism as being Xing 興. The process of ritual action described here is not two detached and unrelated events, a sacrifice and an exorcism, but rather that a sacrifice with ale is to be incorporated as the offering for the exorcism performed thereafter. This can be support- ed by a divination like 302 + 344: 乙亥歲祖乙牢又鬯一，唯狩禦往, which uses the topic marker wei 唯to introduce an explanatory sentence putting focus on and emphasizing that the offer- ing proposed in the initial clause was for an exorcism ritual performed to protect a hunt led the king; see 27, 32, 214 and 113. 157 It is also possible that the direction of this inscription be read 夫貞 “Fu tested”. Wu Ding’s son Xiao Ji 孝己 once hunted at a place called by this name; see HJ 21546 and Yingcang 1822. Yibian 2267 records the delivery of divination materials by Fu at Lu 鹿鹿 (written with two deer but equal to 鹿), and this suggests that this lineage was active in the vicinity of this place; for other variant spellings of Lu 鹿, see HYZ 2.1 commentary. 132 | HYZ 59