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On Xinhai, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some antelope (and) one cow (for our lord’s) tooth exorcism,255 and return.256 1 254 For the identification of as se 瑟 “zither”, see Xu Baogui 2006: 155-172, cited in GuLin Bubian, NO35: 910-911. The writing of it with 大 “adult man” suggests that it actually means zither players; see 374.4. The phrase “er se 二瑟” in the “Yan li” 燕禮chapter of the Yili 儀禮 means two zither players and not two zithers. 255 The HYZ prince was almost certainly the recipient of this tooth exorcism, since he was the only person in the HYZ OBI who is ever recorded having had a toothache; this divination is associated with 163 and 395.7, and perhaps also 28 and 284.4. On 163, an exorcism rite for a HYZ 135 | 173