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Requested (from) Zhen.177 175 Jao Tsung-I (1959: 565) transcribes this graph as xian/xuan . This shell together with 464 forms a two-shell set. A person with this same name was one of Wu Ding’s diviners, and this raises the possibility that he was also one of the HYZ diviners; see Jao Tsung-I 1959: 565-571. 176 The rest of this divination utterance has been omitted. See commentary to 55.4 for a fuller explanation. What has been omitted was either the same divination statement as the previous one, or its converse, something like “Xian might die”. 177 This delivery receipt ought to be equivalent in meaning to 自賈气(乞) “Requested from Jia” is composed of mu 木 + xin 辛 + an element that resembles the graph ding 丁. Mu 木 (clas- sifier) + xin 辛 (phonetic) spells either zi 梓 “catalpa” or zhen 𣐽/𣓀 (榛) “hazelnut”. 440, 444, and 483 are all receipts from this place. HYZ 81 | 143